I am an artist

This German notion of wanting to categorize everyone and everything neatly in tiny little boxes drives me insane. I, personally, cannot and do not want to be categorized. I wouldn’t even know where to start.

Am I a writing actress who sings and produces their own music who happens to also have a degree in laws and who also likes to film their own scenes? Am I a singing writer-producer-filmmaker who also acts in their own stuff and knows a lot about law and languages and life?

Or am I „not a real actress“ because I do not have a degree and I also dare to not take every shitty role I get offered just because „that’s what a real actor would do“? Am I not a real filmmaker because I didn’t go to film school, I am not male and I am certainly not thinking about filmmaking every waking hour of every day of my life? Am I not a real music producer because I haven’t started in my bedroom when I was 12 (although that is debatable), I do not have a huge studio and noone gives a shit about my stuff?

Should I just shut up because I clearly am none of these things as I oftentimes do not make money with what I do (yet) so, well, it must be „just a hobby“ and why don’t I get „a real job“? Am I not allowed to be considered a „professional“ because „professionals have degrees!“, although I spent hours and hours of doing the same thing over and over and over again (just like in a school, but without a school) until I was able to express what I needed to express for this piece, that poem, that scene, this character?

What, then, TELL ME, am I?!

I am a unicorn, I am a wild and free animal. I do not fit into your tiny little boxes. I am an artist. Deal with it.

Keep creating, my friend. Love ya!