The Terrible Child - A Way Out Of Mediocrity for the Artist.

You did everything right. The MFA. The residencies. The theory. The technique. And the market can't tell you apart from everyone else who did the same thing. That's not bad luck. That's substitutability. In saturated fields, competence doesn't create distinction — it creates supply. The more you train inside a tradition, the more you resemble it. The more you resemble it, the less visible you become. This is the mechanism. And there's a way out of it.