Hi everyone happy New year. I'm so glad to be back doing art crit with you all. Before we leave I wanted to share something I wrote. 

I have retired from the corporate world and I am a full time artist now. I have a registered company with my blog. A blog where I document my artistic spiral and art practice. I've actually shared this, what I'm saying to you all on my blog. I have also decided to take a sabbatical/semi retirement from my art career. I will not be applying to grants, residences or publications this year. I am relying on my friends, my acquaintances and wider community to support me. I am a queer person estranged from both my parents and a visible immigrant in a hostile environment especially living on the south side of Dublin. I am largely housebound in a society that despises COVID safety. 

I am asking you all to support me by subscribing to my blog, it is a pay what you can subscription and most of the content is available for the free tier as most of the blog is my writing. 

However I share my music, visual art and more recently a podcast I animated on the platform. I discuss everything from AI to hygiene, interpersonal relationships to navigating life as an artist in the 21st Century. 

I'm going to stop here and hope that you all sign up and more importantly bookmark my blog, visit regularly and share with all the black people you know, all the disabled people you know, and all the artists you know. I've learned word of mouth marketing makes a difference so here I am using my creativity and mouth and I hope you can appreciate how nerve wracking it is to say this as a rejection sensitive person but my survival relies on this blog. Can't wait to see you all there. I've added the link in the bio and there's an app you can download if you check the about page. Thank you for listening.