>> I like that my career basically involves sitting around thinking of cool stuff to make.
So it can be a painting, it can be a print, or it can even be a set of rocks glasses
that I'm going to put my art on and sell in my gallery in West Hollywood.
That is the best part of doing what I do.
Also, that people react to it positively.
That I'm able to make a living making stuff.
And people want that stuff and actually pay money for it.
I think those are the two best parts of it.
To me the biggest challenges aren't on the business side necessarily, they're on,
and I think about this a lot, how to keep people interested in my art.
How to keep a longevity to my career as an artist.
Because art like music, like movies, like TV, it goes through phases
where certain things are popular, and then they sort of lose popularity.
You know, a band might have been popular in 2010,
but in 2015 they're considered sort of has-beens or something.
And I spend a lot of time thinking, "How do I keep my art relevant?"
"How do I progress with my art and keep it developing and changing enough
where people don't lose interest in it?"
To me, that's been sort of the hardest part of being an artist
and having the career that I have.