Mark Traisman, a very creative man of wide interests, told that in order to become a freelance artist, one must go for broke and make a super effort.

“Where did you get the name - psychedelic sculpture? And where do you take subjects for your works?”
This is an author's name, corresponding to what I'm doing. Psychedelic sculptures need to train perception, transcending boundaries of the human soul. Personally, I think in such pictures. My sculptures are biographical works, material images, which came on the line between dream and reality, somewhere seen with averted vision. There may be the remnants of impressions, the people themselves, thinking about them.
“As clinical psychologist by one type of educations you got you have been worked in a hospital for a long time, but eventually you went away. Why?”
I liked the work, there were happy moments, but they ran out. I was engaged in (went through) different stages of searches: religious, philosophical and scientific, and psychological ones. I was searching myself and came to art and creativity, and they filled my whole life. While working in the hospital, I began to study at the Art Institute on the faculties of pottery and sculpture. Sculpture e is more real for me than painting.
Does an artist need some special conditions for creativity?
To create something, we must be spiritually pure, not to keep bad thoughts, to observe the moral and mental hygiene.
Do you have a daily routine?
- It must be. I get up and do yoga for an hour. The main purpose of these exercises is to maintain muscle tone. Since meditation is not available for me as an European, it is replaced by music. Therefore, after yoga, I pass to music, playing about two hours, and I create the right mood. I also finish my day with music, playing one to two hours before bed.
 Do you really do it every day? I suppose someday your laziness will overcome you.
- To start and not to quit up doing exercises, you need a super effort. What helps, that is regular action and self-discipline. I have been doing yoga for about five years, music nearly for seven years. Both hobbies have come to me when I was adult, and I worked hard. Learning music, for example, requires a high attention and a strong nervous tension.
- What should a creative person do to become a freelance artist and still not to be starving?
- You need to go for broke. A person who is constantly greedy of wealth, gets nothing.
Since that time, as I started doing only creative work, and before I began to get normal income, it took about three years or more.
And you are happy now with your live? Is this exactly what you wanted?
- Mostly, yes. Art is all my life. And it simultaneously provides me an endless progression of development. I am just at the beginning.
- Are there times when you do nothing?
- Of course, in such moments, I watch good movies, go to exhibitions, walk around the city.
- And what about your personal life? do you have any spare time?
My personal life is in last place after all of this. I divide my mental search with no one. To each their own, I am rather called a loner.