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One of the most important lessons I learned this weekend addressed an issue I have personally and the person who taught it to me has no idea how much she impacted me. I have a problem at times allowing myself to use the title Artist for myself. The point she made was about herself but it applies to all of us across the board. She spoke about having difficulty describing what her work was as an artist. She then went on to say she'd come to the realization that she had look at her body of work from a year. Not a day, yesterday, last week or last month. She'd come to the conclusion that a year was the most reasonable amount of time to give herself. Such a logical conclusion. When I see her again I'll have to thank her in person. Thank you Mieke!
On another note, one artist in the building who's a beautiful photographer told me, "I couldn't do this for a living. I like to bang metal with hammers, I'm a mechanic." If he wasn't such a beautiful photographer I'd suggest he consider sculpture.
Currently working on six shots of the studio to make a panoramic album and listening to Stephen Marley's Hey Baby on a continuous loop ...
Happy Monday all you Artistes out there!
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addendum: sorry about the twenties remark, that sounds limiting . what i meant was that in my youth i was making work that came into vogue many years later. don't doubt yourself no matter what. about constrained or forced i understand. i had a professor that believed creating was all about structure and making the right conditions for yourself to produce in. 37 years later I've discovered what those conditions are. ;-) it took me that long to realize that for me it meant to remain as childlike as possible through my skepticism.
night, night ,billy goat.
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If you have a headache and are on crutches and still need to get up and go take pics to calm down- You're an artist! feel better!
Purple T says:
My work is art, and some of it is arty. Also i think some of it is crap, but then someone says "Hey that's really good!" and all of a sudden it's art!
As photographers we should just go out and experiment, have some fun, and hopefully we'll enjoy the results, and even more hopefully, so will other's.
Have fun!!
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Here in Noho we have lots of artists working in the mental health field. So many that they struggle in both areas of their expertise. It's not an easy choice deciding the best path. I just quit my job as a daycare provider last June to pursue my art full time. It's a little too soon to know how it will turn out. I have an associates degree in fine arts. I don't think it's the education that makes the artist it's the passion to create that determines.
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I never thought of me as an artist ... too.
I sometimes hope that I'm just a bit artistic.
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if you don't like the first one start another. change your subject if the first one doesn't work . cheap materials- so be liberal with them. ok?
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how wonderful for you to have always felt that way!
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