The Real Reason "Starving Artist" Is Still a Thing

The painting behind me in almost every ad we run was made by the woman in this video. Her name is Sydney Faulkner. Three years ago I went looking for a "woman in the arena" piece, the Roosevelt quote as an image instead of words, and a stranger on Instagram pointed me to Sydney. That painting has been in the background of my office, my content, and nearly every ad since, and it outperforms almost everything else we run. So we flew to her studio in Wilmington, North Carolina to talk to her p...