Al Merose (he/him) (@al.merose.com)

The Tortured Artist Is So Yesterday 41 years ago, Samuel Lipman wrote that an artist’s life is a “constant—and constantly losing—battle” against one’s own limits. That image has lasted because print culture taught us to imagine the artist as a solitary figure whose worth is measured by the perfection of a single, final work. Print fixed texts in place, elevated the individual author, and made loneliness part of the creative job description. http://aneeshsathe.com/2025/12/07/the-tortured-artist-is-so-yesterday/