We were lucky to catch up with Eurydice Eve recently and have shared our conversation below.
Eurydice , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Are you happier as a creative? Do you sometimes think about what it would be like to just have a regular job? Can you talk to us about how you think through these emotions?
I was born a creator. I know no other mode of being. As a toddler, I made icons of saints on found driftwood (and was punished for it by my grandparents who thought it was blasphemous). I taught myself to read at age two and wrote my first story about a priest jolted in ecstasy during Mass at age four. I lived in my imagination most of the time to the annoyance of the adults and I communicated with Nature in a psychic, prelingual language. I have therefore had no choice but to create all day every day. But I did find that, at every step of my journey, I have been tempted by commercial and worldly success to fit in and merely repeat what I just did. The marketplace rewards and monetizes what it can name and put into a category, and it incentivizes standardized automation. However, Art is Unique, Unnameable, Prophetic, Visionary, Futuristic, it’s constantly changing along with the zeitgeist as it accesses the human condition decades ahead and gives it voice. So I have found it impossible to have a normative career without sacrificing the authenticity of my Creative Calling. Agents, publishers, gallerists, promoters are not creatives so it’s impossible to speak their language and mine both. I choose Art.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?
My art company of the last 15 years is Art Against All. (Art against all enemies, despots, fears, ills, lies; Art as Salvation.) My name is Eurydice Eve, I was named after the first two women in the JudaeoChristian tradition. As for the latter part of your question, I am proud of the consistency of my focus, which has been on women’s issues, and in particular women’s relationship to their bodies in patriarchy—a focus that I have maintained for the entirety of my career since I was 21 years old when my first book, f/32, was published. So I want my followers, fans and clients to know that my work is transformative: if they listen to my podcast, it will enlighten their psyches; if they hang my art in their home, it will uplift their home and change their lives as a lighthouse does the ocean at night, because my work is sacred work, what I do is a deep dive into what makes us human.
Can you share your view on NFTs? (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)
I feel I spend too much time looking at screens already. I don’t need to do that with art too. I prefer to feed the ancient mind and the tactile, sensual, absorbent, and emotionally expressive aesthetic senses.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
Society can pay artists a Basic universal Artist income and expect from them a certain number of creative output per category in return which can be used as art in public spaces or published by public initiatives, without limiting an artist’s access to the private market where his or her value can fluctuate as it currently does. Society can recognize the inherent value of art as similar to the value of religion: not a store of value nor a commodity, but a necessary and essential food for the human soul.
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