Maggie Hinders

And that was really interesting.

Yeah.

That was really, I really important to me just to understand what path you might want to, I might want to do.

it's more like that I'm more like better being better able to decide what to do and as I went along more like I'm not less like I'm shooting for something at a certain particular level I'm more like well I know what it's going to look like when I get there so I'll have a little bit of a I can anticipate like yeah yeah whether that's going to suit me or not

I didn't know it was going to be this.

I have a different situation because I'm retired from a job.

While it would be great to make money, I don't need to.

I can survive on what I've got.

It would be nice to do more than survive, but the pressure to do things and earn money is a little different.

It does change what you think you have to do

in with your artwork to to succeed in a marketplace so you feel like it's a little less like I don't know maybe urgent or something because you don't have a you don't have a financial reliance on it yeah and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing I can't tell you it might be better to be more hungry

Yeah.

And that's another thing, like some of the prompts really gave me the direction to go look for that, okay, this word or this thing describes what I'm trying to do.

And it just put me into a kind of a pool of thought that helped to kind of tease out what my work is really about.

so that I can tell the story.

The part of telling the story about my work and that how important that is, is something I usually or previously always rejected.

I'm like, my art doesn't need a story.

It stands on its own.

If you can't understand it,

then it's not for you.