For our last installment of GOOD ADVICE/BAD GAY, interdisciplinary artist and author Zach Ozma was kind enough to weigh in on a queer art question from a budding perv afraid of community backlash for edgy work.
Wrote Stuck In My Head, “1) I'm afraid to start working because I don't think my skill level will ever match what I imagine in my head, and 2) I want to write about disgusting, depraved things that scare me. I want to write about queer people with fucked up morals who have gross sex and fuck each other over…I guess I'm afraid of backlash from my family and friends, or on the other hand, backlash from the kinky queers that I want to like me if I end up misrepresenting their communities, since I haven't been able to form my own yet.”
Read on for Zach Ozma’s paywalled advice about the work of art work1.
Your skills not matching your imagination is a Certified Universal Artist Problem. With so much love in my heart, I tell you to suck it up.
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