I plan to take over the world. I'm 56.  I don't live at home anymore. Time has not been good to me.  I was beautiful years ago. I was popular at one time and made a lot of money. I spend my days cleaning and remembering my artistic paintings. I want to make money from painting. I used to paint futuristic scenes inspired by outer space. My children love to paint like Jackson Pollock. There were galleries full of my work. I made $5,000 on a piece of art once. I used to be a professional painter. I don't go to art exhibits. My inspiration to paint comes from my experience. It is therapeutic to paint. I had a difficult life. I used the money I made from art to escape my past troubles. Art saved my life. I went straight from living in my parents' house to living on my own.
My hopes and dreams are to spend time with friends having fun. I'm 19.  I work at Burger King.  I still live in my parents' house. I want to move out.  My parents are always on my back.  I will live with my friends. I love to paint. I like abstract art, such as the works by Jackson Pollock. I have not sold any paintings. I do not know what I want to do when I get older.
I finally finished my latest piece and I'd love your feedback on it. I would love to check it out some time. I would also know how you found a buyer for your art, how do you do that? I take them to street fairs mostly. I do pretty well there, depending on the city. That seems like a good idea. When you create a painting, do you think about what your customers might buy, or do you just paint what feels right for you? I try and do both. Paintings that might be "popular" will draw the customers in to my booth. There they will see my other stuff and maybe they will be a repeat customer. I am obsessed with abstract art - but I am not sure that is what sells well. I think it's hard to balance being artistic with being a business and making money. It looks like you were able to balance the two, is it something you want to keep doing?  Well it's what I'm good at, so I don't really have a choice. But I do enjoy it, though like I said I don't do the pretentious art exhibit thing anymore. Yeah, I hate that pretentious stuff too, but that's where the money is. I can't work at Burger King forever. I was thinking of doing a painting of different burgers, do you think that's a good idea for an art topic? Like a Warhol Campbell's soup thing? I like it! I'd buy one for sure. Yes! I love how Andy Warhol lived by his own rules. That's really inspiring to me. He made a ton of money that way too. What inspired your paintings? Well I liked to create futuristic paintings because my reality was so depressing. It was a way for me to escape to another world. You could probably channel something similar with the way your family treats you. Put that angst into your work. Ah, ok. So the paintings were about a world you wanted to see. Angst is a good topic for art I think. Some of the best music comes from expressing anger.  It's just when you see a lot of art, it's all flowers and kittens. I think painting a burger elevates the common to something glorious. I want people to think of burgers in a new way, like you did with your futuristic paintings.