Dispatches from inside the art life.

This is where I put the things no one talks about—what it really costs to make art, keep going, raise a kid, age in the field, build a life out of ideas and grief and rent payments. Survival Tapes is a running series I post on TikTok: part confessional, part resistance manual, part comedy. If you’re a working artist, especially mid-career or mid-collapse, this is for you.

I talk about money, class, institutions, awkward parties, dumb grants, ethical knots, and how we keep creating anyway. I make these tapes to name what’s often unnamed, to connect with other makers, and to archive a truth that isn’t sponsored.

Take what you need. Leave the rest. Keep going.