'The city's grind can be hell, but it's an Edenic garden of inspiration': young artists on why they are sticking it out in New York

I basically stopped making anything for three years. I thought it would be easy to find a job with this degree, but it turns out it doesn't mean anything,

But while he lost work, he also regained the time and he put it to good use, converting his small Brooklyn bedroom into an ad hoc studio where, for the first time since college, he began making art again.

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