March 10, 2004
Set Yourself an Arbitrary Goal
Trouble with measuring your success is the arbitrariness of achievement. Once, I thought it would be a great honor to publish some writing in a major magazine. Millions of readers see Salon each month. It's far more than the New Yorker or the Nation (in pure readership). Then it happened, and now it's over, and it hardly matters.
Tonight at the Whitney Bienniale opening, I imagined what artists set out to do. Be remembered? Make an impact? How do you know if you did it? Well, you achieve something -- like getting yourself in the Bienniale or into the MoMA collection (done that one too). And then what? Well, then you have to pay the bills and buy a nice house and pay for the clothes.
Posted by amol at March 10, 2004 10:38 PM
