The main purpose of this work is to explore the context in which freelance artists are working today while addressing the growing importance of the economic aspect within the artistic field, the imperative for freelance artists to become selfentrepreneurs and the mechanisms of their subjectivation. The work tackles these topics by trying to realise a subjective exploration of the artistic field of the present time. "Unfolding the Margins" elaborates specific forms of discourses by finding the possible connections between philosophy, sociology and the own experience of the author as a freelance artist.