Adversity and Art

Can we apply the old adage of what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger to our art? I think we can with a little tweeking the adversity we go through will make our art deeper. I am looking forward to how this will apply to my art and my life. 2008 ended horribly for me. After an injury @ work kept me out of work for almost 3 months I found a second job to try and catch up. It worked into a full time position with no increase in pay but a job where I could sit down which I needed due to the knee injury. Like a good person I gave a 2 week notice to the first job which I needed to work to keep catching up. This wonderfully kind Christian based employer promptly took me off the schedule leaving me short since the other job didn’t start full time until Jan 5th. Now my car which I must have to get to work is having major issues causing me to miss 2 days of work this week. Not sure how I am going to pay the bills for it or for the month but I do believe that my art and my photography will have more depth.