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Please, Do Feed the Artists
I’ve been around a long time.
Over the last forty years, I’ve worked as a freelance illustrator, an art director, a working musician, and a published author.
During that time, I’ve watched the sad and slow erosion of appreciation for creative human beings and for the work of their hands.
I could nuance the language and wordsmith the delivery to make it more palatable, but the naked, unadorned truth is that people simply don’t value art anymore in the way they once did.
As a result, they don’t value the artists behind it, either.
Over the past couple of decades, many people have gotten so used…
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