The fact that I work in Finance, from an artistic point of view, is an added value, a curiosity, a plus, an advantage, not a minus.
Some years ago, I was unhappy because, for me, as a creative person, working in Finance was a disadvantage. I felt it prevented me from learning to fly creatively. Today (I wrote this text on the 24th of April, 2023), I see that working in Finance is, undoubtedly, my advantage. It is unbelievable that such a prolific photographer and writer like me works in Finance. Switching between two worlds, the world of Finance and the world of Art, is remarkable. Everything must be cleared, explained, solved, and answered in the first world, the Finance world. On the other hand, in Art’s world, nothing has to match each other.
We can leave our message unclear, unexplained, unresolved, unanswered, and ambiguous.
The older I am, the more benefits I see from working in Finance. First of all, I am financially independent. I do not seek customers to take pictures of or for them. Contrary. I photograph everything that mundane reality will bring to me, with garbage, street lamps, and rags at the forefront. Thanks to working in Finance, I genuinely do not care if some people do not like my photographs because everyone can take pictures of old rags lying on the ground or garbage (and they would be right!).
I would answer them that, in the same way, everyone could take picturesque postcard pictures of Warsaw.
Working in Finance is my competitive advantage in Art because I am a fully independent artist. Still, please remember, my Dear Friend, I do not consider other street photographers and bloggers to be competitors. I can clearly imagine that for future cyber-archeologists, who will be investigating my works of Art and my biography long after my death, the fact I worked in a broadly defined Finance department will be a curiosity that will only add a mixture of excitement and wonderment regarding my works.
