Patti Johnson

You know, what gives me the most fulfillment?

And that's really what we try to give guidance on because it should look different for everyone.

Yes.

So I think for reference, I think what you're talking about here is the first section of the assessment.

We talk about audience and we talk about narrative.

And

I think one of the things that's very interesting about the art world is that your artistic narrative or your career narrative is, those to me anyway, are not words that we hear all that often.

We might hear the word artist statement or bio or something like that, but career narrative is something that's not commonly used, but it's actually really important.

Because what the career narrative does is it allows you to identify your values.

It allows you to identify bits and pieces of your narrative.

that may be relevant to building your visibility as an artist.

And because we don't talk about these things, because we don't talk about what narrative means, I think it means that artists are often handicapped at developing that.

Because we literally don't even have the language, the common language and professional practices to, you know, to identify what the problem is.

So that's part of, I think, like what that's trying to solve.

And I think what's exciting to me is for you to have taken that and, you know, within a couple of days, like of that being released, you had already benefited from it.

Right.

Well, I do think that that is something too that's sort of specific to your particular practice, but also I think something that is part of the cultural moment that feels really relevant right now.

There is a kind of interest in

the spiritual, whatever that may mean.

But pinning that down can be very difficult.