Another one! Another artist/lawyer...or is it lawyer/artist?
I was an artist long before I was a lawyer. But I guess I was also a laywer long before I was officially skooled and licensed. I guess I was born an unlicensed lawyer.
Scary thought for those with new babies at home, eh? You might have one sitting in that little carry around thing right now.
I'm often asked how I chose law and advocacy.
That's an easy one. When you think like a lawyer and when you lean toward figuring out how to help people better their situations, it's really just a tactical question of "how do I utilize those skills and how do I make a particular bent valuable to others?"
Looking back, there was never a question of the types of things I would do. The only question was a logistical one: how?
And someone recently asked me "How did you choose humor?"
Is it really a choice when we do what we have to do? Isn't it really about following our natural leanings? Perhaps the only real way in which humor or art are different from the choices other people make is that they result in a product.
And perhaps the only ones who really make a choice are those who donot do what they have to do.
So while your brain is all hot and bothered and intellectual-fied, check out the seriously neat work of Jose Arcadio Klein and the Learned Handmade Plates collection.
It's been a long time since I've looked at plates. The last plates were at Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party.
You know you're a feminist when you choose vagina-focused art. All of a sudden the entire world becomes triangular. You see triangles everywhere and think everything deep down is the celebration of the female love core.
Either I'm no longer a feminist or I just got tired of seeing triangles.
But I'm a huge fan of plate-art and an even more huge fan of laywers who make plates.
So far I am aware of one lawyer who makes plates. :-)