Dave Evans
speaker
2,777 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Dave Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was a fine artist.
And he decided he wanted to do that as a living, not on the side.
He knew he could be an amateur artist and make a good living doing other kinds of things.
But no, he wanted to walk his talk and do his rather avant-garde kind of art.
And he was struggling and having a hard time.
And then he said an interesting thing.
He said, and suddenly I realized something that made all the difference.
I said, well, Arnie, what's that?
He said, I realize if I'm going to be an artist, I just have to accept that I'm going to be poor for the rest of my life.
He said, and once I accepted that, it was really quite easy.
And I said, well, how old are you?
He said, oh, early 30s.
I said, whoa.
So now, so he's got some precedent there.
He made a big realization and it became easy, not, I mean, you know, hand to mouth and struggling and all kinds of things, but easy in that he's not fighting it.
So now, you know, he lives in an artist's installation.
Many years ago, a group of artists got together with a patron and found an old warehouse and sent one of the warehouse into studio apartments.
And he's been there for decades, you know, living in very Spartan digs, sitting in his wheelchair, barely able to move.
He sleeps about 17 hours a day now because his body is failing.
But when you walk into the room and see him and go, Arnie, how's it going?
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