Haiku

How are they so brave

To drop out of the rat race
Just to chase whimsys

Critical perspective

“What would you like to do if money were no object?”

Design is sometimes thought of as a form of marketing, this is something I find very troubling and would like to address with this photography series. With this series I have looked at people trying to find forms of income doing the things they love and bowing out of the ‘rat race’, that is the typical nine to five grind. Whether they are street performers, artists or even homeless people. To me this is important because, with all of us about to finish our degrees and looking towards getting careers, the temptation to get a job that you don’t like but that pays well and offers security is there. I am not saying that we should be homeless people to avoid selling out, but to remember why we started a creative qualification in the first place. To me Alan Watts sums up the issue perfectly in ‘The Book’ when talking to students about to finish their degrees (coincidence that I found it so apt? I think not) and giving them vocational guidance he says “You will be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living that is to go on doing the things you don’t like doing. Which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”