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When success traps you in one artistic subject

My sculpture series about mental illness got amazing reviews but now everyone expects me to keep mining my trauma for content and I want to make something joyful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your painful work made you a name, but now you're expected to keep reliving it instead of making something happy.

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