They say “give credit where credit is due,” but what if the person getting credit for your work is also you? Well… a person created by you. This is where the curator's success and dilemma began. 

Before she became the famous “Ridley,” she was once an aspiring artist with dreams bigger than her eyes, but doubt followed her everywhere she went. As a kid she loved the arts, she enjoyed going to museums and imagined walking into the paintings on the wall. She was discouraged from pursuing the arts. “It’s a dead end,” they’d say. So she persevered and studied hard, a different program of course, but she remained determined nonetheless. Despite graduating with a business degree, her dreams of becoming an artist never faltered. She took a corporate job and worked hard. Hard enough to afford her own studio, and so her real work began. 

As she woke, she would wonder, and she would create, and a cycle emerged. As she worked on her creations, she too, continued to work with her corporation. So as she woke, she would work, and then she wondered, and only then could she create. 

But time was fickle, and there was only so much time in the day. So as she woke, she had to bathe, and had to eat, and had to work. But after work she still had tasks to take home, and only then could she create. 

But there were more things to do, apart from her work and her creations. There was the washing, and the cleaning, and the ironing too. Don’t forget the sleeping, as sleep is an important thing to do. So as she woke, she had to bathe, she had to eat, and work, and work again, and do the washing and the cleaning and the ironing and the sleeping. 

She did not have time to wonder. 

She did not have time to create.

One day she woke up and had a thought, “this won’t do.”

So she bathed and she ate. She went to her work, straight to her boss. She handed in her resignation letter and this time, her real work began.