[phoenix]

way too many.

to be honest I really shy away from up and coming's, mostly because a lot of them tend to be flavours of the week, all in the same cool theme of work, and either flop around with what they are doing too much for my tastes, or just don't stick with it. Sometimes I'll write down names where people are doing things that I really find interesting, and look them up in a year or two. Personally it really fucks with my creative process when I spend too much time around people who are all producing the same thing, or any one person who has a particularly strong style. I'm easily distracted and end up noticing things coming up in my work that would not have otherwise. Which bugs me. I'll look back on a month and it will be tainted with ideas or styles that are so far from what I know to be my own true concepts or styles.. and I throw a lot out.

There are lots of living artists I follow who aren't young though. In art I respect dedication a lot more than over famous types or one offs. Not that all the people whose art I enjoy are uknown. hm.