I will be very happy to find your response to the thoughts shared on this blog, particularly those referring to your personal experience concerning the areas of life dealt with here.
Questions concerning artists’ lives like:
How are we, artists accepted by our home country?
What do we do for living?
How often does an artist decide to have a family? If not, why not?
What is the main income of an artist?
My decision to be an artist has, in the first part of my life, given me the experience of walking on the edge – a constant existential insecurity
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- Zvonka Simčič
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
- What can I say. I've been active in the arts for a long time. Mixed styles... they call it multimedia or intermedia art... perhaps it would be more suitable to say: "know your way around!"
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I am 32 years old, I live in Ljubljana and I am a new media artist. I have been thinking about the topic of this blog and the reasons why I still haven't decided to have a child. I admit that the reasons are personal much more than social. The steady lifestyle and a regular job with a regular income facilitate the decision of people to have a child, especially if there are no big challenges in the career. Nothing of these is valid for the lifestyle and career flow of an artist. I am not worried about the money and mere financial survival; I still think that many people are much poorer than the artists in our country and that many uneducated people have less job opportunities than the artists.
My reasons why I still don't want to have children is very simple: I want to spend some more years just working and developing my career. I actually don't want to have a child and then have no time to spend with it. Or to be overworked and have no patience for the child's needs. On the other hand, I often remember my school years and I don't see me going through all of that once again with my child or get trapped again in the circle of the family generations. I am very independent right now and I enjoy my life as it is.
And then again, there are so many children in the world that are literally dying and suffering. So there is actually no need to produce another child apart from the luxury to have a child of one's own
1 What do you as an artist and a mother do for living?
If you mean, with what kind of work I earn the money for living, the answer is- with different kind of artistic and advertising work ( before many years I work design, then cartoons and illustrations for magazines, publishing of small books, teaching (drawing, painting), sometime I sell my works.
2 What is your basic/main income per month?
Every month is different according to circumstances, maybe basic it’s near 300 euro.
Sometime less, sometime more.
3 Who provides for the family?
We work together with my husband
4 How many children do you have?
I have one daughter
5 How much money can you make doing art?
I work contemporary art. Making of installation, realisation of photo sessions for my work (and then the printing), making of objects from different materials or producing of video are cost many money. I can’t wait, when some curator will invite me to his/her project with the money for artist ( artistic fee or money for making of works) and therefore I work some another works ( see p.1).I try to economize and to separate a part of the money for producing of my own future projects.
6 How does the state in your country take care of artists?
In Bulgaria we have not any support for artists from the state.
7 Have you ever thought of leaving Bulgaria and moving to a country where working and living conditions are better?
When I was young it was not be a possible. Now it is already impossible according great number of reasons.
8 What is the experience of being an artist and a mother like?
I love the art and the life equal. I like to be mother and to be artist. It’s nature and sterling connection for me.
9 Do you think that motherhood makes the woman more subtle and more open to the world and for the world, or not? What is your experience?
My personal experience is restricted only by the point of view of artist-mother, because I gave in marriage and born my daughter quite early ( being on 21 years old). In this connection I can’t to maintain that I have “more subtle and more open to the world” then the artist women without children.
10 What are the aims you intend to achieve in art – why do you create, what is the purpose/mission of your production/work?
In my work I try to reflect all that make strong impression under me. It’s not only one aim that intend to achieve me to create art. I hate all kinds of injustice, iniquity, violence, aggression, lie, manipulation and when I meet it’s I need to make something and I make the art.
I very interested to observe the development and changes in relationships between male and female.
I am particularly interested in the philosophy of our existence and the tragic bifurcation of the human.
11 What do you think about a single woman going for artificial insemination?
Every woman has to do what she wants, what she feels and how she feels. The maternal instinct is very strong for more women. When she can’t to find the proper men and in same time has a huge desire to be mother, to has own baby, it is normal for me, if she started to looking for exit of this situation.
I think that to give the life is the better, then to state along. The artificial insemination is a possibility for the single women to live normal life. Are they will be happy or not with the baby? The answer of this question is different for every woman and depends on many things. I think the most important in this case ( and maybe the most apprehensive) is unknown quantity - the donor’s (man’s) quality (and all that its included: genetic makins, main character, inclinations, ets) . The child will carry some or more of this. In nature situation ( when you real like or love some man) is work an internal instinct, who hint you is it will be good for you or not ( we say then that “the God says to us” ). In artificial insemination unfortunately the women has not this sensation and the risk is sometime objective.
The other serious problem is absence of the father for child (in the future, when he/she will understand the situation, more in connection with the other children).
Nobody is happy completely, but every try to attempt.
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