vg44. The Artists myth of being defended in a poor community

If  the quality of my artwork is established how do I defend myself and the fruit of my labor? 

Artists create luxury goods.  These are goods that are to be marketed for exceptional places.  So they have exceptional demands on things like living arrangements.  They need large enough spaces or comfortable enough spaces to practice there are at all. For example in simple places, art for art’s sake is frowned upon and so is any artist who is just an artist.  Creating art which is just beautiful and does not help the day to day living is frowned upon. Artists in poor communities like myself are expected to find extra means to physically defend themselves. 

For example I lived in a troubled, inner city neighborhood so that I could be close to the many cultural activities of downtown Montreal.  My house was poor and for most of the time there was a relatively adequate system of defense. 

But the minute the presence of affluent competitors entered the community, the defensive mechanisms became to a large extent incapable of maintaining the safety of myself and the others around me. I must state this is before the financial situation of the community changed in any way.

In a poor situation the safety of experts is at risk. 

For someone to have art of established worth whether in a poor community or not one must have the presence of established art experts. Two things are worthy of note. These distinguished people, to see just discovered art, are present in these unprotected communities.  They are also, at that time, hidden from the world.  

Attacks within the Community

There is even a chance for attack within the community itself. If there is no poor community that has not worth or it would exist, then affluent parts are right near in the very same neighborhood.  Imagine how disturbing it could be to neighborhood bigwigs if this prestigious art was created in the part of the community that was in turmoil.  In other words if it was the product of the most controversial members of this community as compared to the product of poorer more distinguished elements of the very same community.

So, to reiterate, since I am still in the incubation stage of my art production, what steps can I take to insure the safety of myself and the fruit of my labor as an artist?