What Is An Artist

What Is An Artist is a small project intended to explore what is means to be an artist in the world full of conflict, consumerism, and a growing contempt for creativity and the human experience. It is an assertion that despite a continuing attempt to disempower and silence those who identify as creatives and artists, our love and passion for the arts, creativity, and sincerity will be the thing that brings us closer to building a better world.
I started this project to provide a platform for the everyday artist. For artist to be able to talk about their practice, their lives, their experience, and their love for art as a way of counteracting the dehumanizing construction of the art world. The art world has increasingly become a culture defined by elite classes and powerful corporation, instead I believe in a vision of art as community. Something that is local, sincere, and interconnected. This project focuses on interviews with small, local, artists. People you might know, people who remind you of that artist friend, family member, or weird neighbours. These are interviews of people like you. Everyday people, people who I believe are deserving of reverence, love, and attention. 
This is a project born out of my love for people. My attempt to share my unabashed passion for every individual I meet. It is about love, humanity, vulnerability, and art.