Francesca Galliani

Somebody else to oppress me.  Francesca Galliani.  She is a painter, a photographer, something in between.  She exhibits in fine arts galleries globally.  Slick magazines hire her to shoot fashion.  She keeps visual diaries like Peter Beard, the kind we promise ourselves we will begin one day (and maybe do for an entry or two).  She says that talent is not enough.  An artist must be dogged and enterprising.  She speaks of making connections.  That is where she loses me.  What does that mean????  But I know she is right.  Work kept in a drawer is just that.  There is something more than confidence required.  More than talent, more than confidence.  You tell me.

Or ask Tom Waits.  He has just released his first album in seven years.  And he is . . . .  Just watch the video.  More than talent.  More than confidence.

How far would you go?