Being a Jamaican Artist is quite an interesting line of work. It can be fulfilling, frustrating. Full of artistic growth and exploration or be a sentence to live as a weirdo, a curiosity.
A tradesman your peers struggle to understand.
Unless you have already made it big the "artist" is not really a traditionally respectable profession. Many Jamaicans are still under the impression that unless you have gone to college or university and ended up being a lawyer, doctor, banker or broker then you are not due the respect as a professional as many other persons do.
Likewise parents are more apt to prod their children into more traditional areas of the study with the arts pushed to the back seat. All this done inspite of the numerous world renowned talents spawned from the island in areas such music and the visual and performing arts.
With that being said the artist is usually pretty lucky to scratch out a living working in areas such as graphic design, art teachers or craftsmen in the tourist industry. But then, there are those who don't want to enter those fields.
The younger Jamaican artist often has aspirations to create far beyond the resources that he/she might have available to them. There are kids here who are drawing their own comics, animating and learning to be entrepreneurs yo profit from their skills.
I try to urge all tech savvy Jamaican artists and artists all over the world for that matter to look into digital markets and digital currencies. Platforms like this, Steemit and Cryto currency options such as bitcoin are fresh fields of possibilities ripe to the artist who knows how to tend to it.
If you are a fellow artist trying to find their way as well comment below,I'm looking for cool people to follow and share with.
