Things have been slow. Very slow. I have received a couple of leads from people, but no one has committed to commissioning me to do any work. Honestly i have been spending a majority of my time checking in on my mom who is in her 70s and lives alone. I haven’t done anything at all when in regards to my artwork. talking with her over the phone and making sure she gets food is number 1 on my priorities. My mother has needed some small repairs and basic help around the house. She is not feeble, but there are things that she absolutely cannot do by herself. Government funding for her meals have been cut. My concern also goes out to the people that don’t have family and are alone and hungry and scared.
Ive had small instances of feeling inspired, but I have not acted on them. I don’t know or understand why. I’m thinking its my environment and how stressed I am over the health and safety of my family. This is not the idea situation for the inspiration. I try and reach out to other artists and watch to gain the inspiration to move forward but find myself in a dark stagnant place of being stuck.
I’m looking forward to this all ending but I remember after 9/11 nothing was the same for my business. It hurt me so bad that I had to layoff 5 of the 15 people I had working as artists. I never recovered from that day in history. It took a terrible toll on many small businesses that spread to the larger companies in 2008. It seems that many small businesses fell out during that time. It took almost 20 years before things began to look better.
My business today is not as complicated as it was in the late 90s and early 2000s. All I have is myself, My tents, easels, markers, chairs, and truck. Its been fun. When I had businesses doing the same thing. Dealing with employees and payroll and large sums of taxes, Rents, insurance, credit card machine leases and a multiple of customers that were not always satisfied.
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