Tom Ray

I know it won't work but I can't help trying things.

In this clip from the Art Podcast, artist and YouTuber Ben Walker Storey tells me about how he dealt with the anxiety of promoting his artwork using video. And also how these videos turned into a series about drawing goths from the 80s. How the idea came about for the drawing goths series that you're doing? It's weird because it started like this very definitive spark moment of not knowing what the hell is going on in the world with the pandemic. So that was a very global thing that everybody was going through and then for me, I had been seeking help for some mental health issues. I thought I had ADHD basically.  Things were kind of getting kind worse as far as being able to keep track of my life and my projects. Just jumping from one thing to another without even realizing I had left what I was working on and all of a sudden I'm in another room. And I was kind of going off sometimes and barking at people like strangers for no good reason you know? It just wasn't good.

All very disorienting since I'm still not sure what happened.

The worst part is that I don't even have a support number to call to find out what was going on with my account to begin with.

I don't remember biting it yesterday. Could I have done it in my sleep?

Eh. It happens. Oddly, it makes me think of trying to create more things.