To be a great artist you need to find anywhere to live that nourishes your soul, but i have consistently been into painting and drawing, and I never knew who stifling it was to live in a big city.
I was born and raised in a big city, so that was all I knew… Smog, skyscrapers, and a constant din of white noise in the air, it was legitimately awful although I had nothing to compare it to.
When I was 18 I took a college trip across the country to a math convention and it changed my whole life. I felt like it legitimately spoke to me, and enhanced my desire to draw and to paint, then right away I knew I needed to leave the confining neighborhood streets for the wide-open skies of my area. It took a few months, however finally I was able to land a position teaching middle college math in a public college. It was a fine job, and allowed me to pay the bills while I focused on my art during the weekends. This is the same time that discovered cannabis is totally legal here, and there are too several dispensaries for me to count. I had never smoked much cannabis previously, and I found that combined with the gorgeous panoramic vistas of my area, weed was inspiring to me. I am aware that I may never make it as a professional artist, however because I have cannabis and the neighborhood to inspire me I am a legitimately happy man.