I think it is ok if I just go ahead and say it: Saying you are an artist (in Berlin) is kind of the equivalent of saying you are Greek right now. Try it out. The minute your conversation with somebody at an opening gets interesting tell them “I am an artist you know”. (The reaction will also be similar if you go for: “I want to have your baby”): Frozen smile, short inhale mid sentence, panic look, body weight shifts away from you, side glance for somebody else to talk to. Hell, I react the same way myself. There are just too damn many of us out there, too many, too desperate… how did this happen?
