JUST AN AMATEUR?

Published: Nov. 2, 2019, noon

It\u2019s common-practice to describe our art-making efforts as either amateur or professional, the amateurs often feeling they aren\u2019t \u201creal\u201d artists when in fact some of the great creative efforts have been made by people who hung on to a so-called real-job and did their work in the margins, do it \u201cmerely\u201d for the love of it. But there\u2019s nothing mere about love and just because you do this part-time doesn\u2019t mean it won\u2019t take full-time commitment.