I Watch Boring TV at Night. But Dream Farm Got Me Thinking.

Have you seen Dream Farm on Amazon yet? Our hero and host is Monty Don, from Gardner's World fame (another BBC nerd-show I adore). I watch boring TV at night, in bed, to quiet my brain. Nothing is better than the English countryside or Travels by Narrowboat to go full on Happy-Narcoleptic.

I just finished the short season one of Dream Farm. The premise is basically folks that give up their stressful “city life” and make a go at creating a farm. There are a LOT of burst bubbles once Monty comes to town, and he doesn't hold back on the bursting.

All of these new farmers come to the realization that farming is a business (sadly, much like what they wanted to leave behind). Unsurprisingly, a huge amount of this new farming business is marketing. Which of course got me thinking about artists, and how each artist is like a micro business, and also how there's often the same sort of bubble-bursting that happens when artists realize they need to do all this other “stuff" to get their work out into the world. Some artists resist, some embrace it, and some go along to just go along.

What about you? Do you feel like these other aspects of your art business are fun, a drag, or are you somewhat neutral? When did you realize there was so much to do outside of making art, and how did that feel?