As someone who deals with art and artists on the regular, the thing most people don’t realize is how much our perception of them and their art is built on top of an illusion. It’s the artist’s job to create an illusion of a cohesive narrative. Sometimes that gets into artists’ heads and they’re overly afraid of breaking down that narrative, but sometimes that fear is absolutely justified. It’s a hard judgment call that unfortunately gets even more confused by the prospect of making straight bank