The sole persons I'd attention to be with today are musicians and those who have endured: people who understand what elegance is, and people who know very well what sorrow is: nobody otherwise pursuits me. - Oscar Wilde (De Profundis ) In the new past I faced disillusionment as a playwright and founder of beneficial theater. This knowledge has been instrumental in knowledge the abuse musicians are often put through, the traumatic wounds awakened, and the process of recovery. Essentially once the naivete and idealism of my artist collided.

With avarice and duplicity, I was challenged to grapple with and move through metabolic pressure and bitter cynicism. This process catalyzed critical shifts wonderfully and mentally, which consequently treated the therapy periods I help with numerous varied artists in NYC. Ergo, my knowledge compels me to talk about about the unpleasant hurdles the artist encounters, and the psychic cost and resultant injuries incurred. Furthermore, I also want to identify methods to champion the artist, therefore why these problems and wounds. Mast Culture

May ultimately morph in to knowledge, energy, and success. Composer of The Artist's Way Julia Cameron, said to produce would be to surrender and arrange with an increased will. Cameron expounds that art is just a mystical exchange, which unearths within the artist his purest essence. To risk getting alive ideas of personal splendor and meaning and to bravely reveal one's artistic function is always to show prone areas of what humanistic psychiatrist Abraham Maslow known as the true self. However often we are stymied by our multiple journey to actualize ourselves.

The draw towards safety. Our formative experiences effect wherever we find ourselves with this spectral range of safety and actualization, as do myriad extraneous facets that will discourage the phrase of innate innovative gifts and obstruct imaginative expression. We see that struggle personified in the archetypal reality of the wounded struggling artist. In NYC artists tend to be missing sources to generate their work. The expense of real estate, labor and resources, make it exceedingly difficult for musicians to thrive. Variable forms of treachery.