Basel Switzerland Art Life Reflection

I have spent almost a week here so far this trip. I have spent a few months here total over the past year. I feel so inspired by this city. Although it is very melancholic and especially gray cold and rainy this week with the exception of a few minutes of sun today, I feel very good. I’m also extremely tired and exhausted and feeling a bit depleted from life yet trying to lean into the magic and the auspicious nature of astrology right now as it is a very special eclipse time. On the one hand, I feel like I must get a normal job to pay my bills and make ends meet and on the other hand I feel like magic will continue to happen and my art will support me and takeoff. It is feeling hard right now and it is especially hard always seeing my bank account at almost 0 over the years each day, it causes so much anxiety, but I know something has to give soon and I have hope. I’ve been applying for normal jobs and yet I am still continuing my best to do my art whenever I have the energy to move. I’m so grateful to have the show opportunity and to be giving an artist talk today. I visited various museums in the city this week including the primary art museum “Kunstmuseum” and the history museum that has a photo exhibition of wildlife animals. I feel so inspired to start painting and I already have. I don’t know what the future holds, but I have a glimmer of hope still despite my daily tears surrounding the beauty and fragility of life.