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The Artistic Catalyst of Halloween
My name is J Snyder, and I am an artist.
Well, kind of. Almost. I’m an artist in transition, beginning the all-important work of asking what it is I want to be when I grow up. I’m an artist realizing that they just can’t “only” be an artist. I must be an artist, a writer, a hustler, a personality. I’m an artist at a major crossroads. I’m an artist with a lot of hopeful anxiety. Today is not only All Hallow’s Eve, but the eve of many things to come.
On December 14th of this year, I will be graduating from Sacramento State University with my Bachelor of Fine Arts (emphasis in painting) which has been a lifelong dream of mine. After dallying through a career punctuated with taking community college art classes as much as I could manage, I finally decided to take the pursuit of art seriously. Today, my vision is still blurred by the camera flash that captured my graduation portrait this week, causing me to blink with uncertainty. My mind is racing over ideas for decorating my graduation cap and trying to figure out a way to turn it into some final painting assignment for class.
I’ve been hard at work planning what life will become in 44 days. I refuse to be part of the 9 out of 10 artists with a degree that never make art following their graduation. Moving on from this period of my life and only…
