My creative collaborator and I have very different relationships to money and success - they come from wealth and can afford to turn down commercial projects while I need to pay rent and take whatever pays. We're both committed to artistic integrity but we define that differently based on what we can afford to risk.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people's economic realities shape their artistic choices in ways that create invisible tension around shared creative decisions.
“Where Are You with Diaspora identity — living between worlds?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.