{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Your Art Is A Spell","title":"Who Profits From Artists' Pain?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":776,"description":"Someone is profiting off the idea that your pain makes better art, and it's not you. In this episode of Your Art As A Spell, Edgar breaks down who actually benefits when artists believe suffering is the price of being \"real\": the art market, institutions, and even the wellness industry that profits from healing the wounds artists were told they needed in the first place.\nWe dig into how the \"tortured genius\" myth was built inside a white, Western, mostly male tradition, yet is still used to measure marginalized artists, who are often expected to turn their identity and suffering into content just to be taken seriously. Edgar also reframes the art block: not a crisis or a personal failure, but a normal, cyclical part of the creative process that sometimes just means you need rest.\nThe takeaway: joy, play, and rest aren't the opposite of serious art, they're acts of resistance against a system that needs you depleted to keep producing.\n💌Join the free community & newsletter: mutant-magic.com\n🔗 Support the podcast on Patreon: patreon.com/yourartisaspell\n#ArtistWellness #CreativeProcess #ArtBlock #MutantMagic #ArtistsOnYouTube\nChapters\n00:00 Who profits from artists' pain?\n02:15 The art market's reliance on trauma narratives\n05:00 Navigating sensitivities and gifts as an artist\n06:36 Joy and rest as acts of resistance\n07:00 Refusing to participate in exploitative systems\n08:08 Reframing art blocks as cycles, not failures\n09:20 Healing enhances, it doesn't diminish art\n10:05 Building supportive artist communities\n11:00 Challenging pressure to perform pain\n12:06 Your art as a spell and a life changer\n🌐 Follow me on Instagram\nhttps://www.instagram.com/edgarfabianfrias/\nTo Watch / Listen to More Episodes from Your Art Is A Spell\nhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVN8TPFy9dYKoNr4LjNV9yDajN-ILKNR&si=1WF6GkfQh2pGfrzl\nTo send me a voice note\nhttps://www.speakpipe.com/YouArtIsASpell\nTo learn more about me and my art\nwww.yourartisaspell.com \nTo learn about my private practice...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OWhM--UdKsZ_4FBvU1NrHQKvneBNtnTXlI0EIio6t8U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kOTBl/MDVlNDU3N2NkMGI1/MzJlY2IzYjRlNWFj/NTZkNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}