Wild child
Dear Artist, About fifty documented instances exist of children reared by animals. Children brought up…
Monthly Archives: March, 2007
Notes from a cave
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from a cave on the northern coast of the Dominican…
Peak shift
Dear Artist, Nigel Spivey, in his insightful book How Art Made the World, speculates on…
Creative memes
Dear Artist, Memes are like genes — they carry characteristics from one generation to the…
Nothing much here right now
Dear Artist, I always thought it was just my problem. Every time anyone — friend,…
Neutral subject matter
Dear Artist, There are three main types of subject matter — positive, negative, and neutral.…
The child within us
Dear Artist, “The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day,” said the British…
Boat stories
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki wrote, “Boats are art objects that take on a narrative…
Artistic license
Dear Artist, “If you want to be an artist — try being artistic.” This deceptively…