vulnerability, craft, and the gnawing need for validation

life is strange or at least the version of it that's sold to us is strange all of life is pretty strange though I'm always torn between being authentic and myself and letting myself be vulnerable, or just hiding behind an artist alias or a screen name to protect my privacy. Inevitably I start to worry about "branding" and "marketability" because it's so ingrained in me that anything you do as a…