Monday, December 10, 2007

Exceptional

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My last post warned against the temptation to believe either yourself or others that you deserve recognition. I recommended against ever go...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Surviving The Fall

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I'm not sure anyone else experiences the fall from grace the way art students do after they leave school, and although everyone graduati...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

No Fear of Painting

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I'll get right to it. Painting is like flying. It is fun. It is free. You can see! You can see better. Or, it's like swimming, which...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Culpa Minor

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You have to be willing to be bad. You have to be willing to fail. No one tells you this. As an artist you have know this. You are going to m...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Humble Pie

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I doubt there is an artist out there who doesn't know that the next thing they do could be a complete bust. We live with it. We try to b...
Monday, September 10, 2007

The Three Ps

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When I was a teenager and hitch-hiked everywhere, I learned the lesson about letting go. It was a quasi-spiritual revelation, and more than ...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

What Counts!

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Many years ago, well over twenty, I taught a class at RISD called Light In The Tunnel. At that point I was thoroughly aware of the risks of ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Nobody Needs To Be Somebody

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Like I always say, I’m not too sure about my take on this, but last week TWO artists in different situations within an hour of each other to...

Green Grass

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If you don’t think the grass on the other side of the fence looks greener, then chances are people probably think you’re smug. So it goes. B...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Stranger In Paradise

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I saw an old friend of mine yesterday. At one time an old boss. It was very interesting. She was part of an effort to show the work of an ar...