Browsing: Letters
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I’m a fraud
Dear Artist, It’s called the “Imposter syndrome.” Some psychologists at Georgia State University identified it about forty years ago. As many as thirty percent of the population have itand even though they may be high achievers, recognized in their fields,…
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Reverse mentoring
Dear Artist, These days, there’s a new trend in some of the big corporations. It’s called “reverse mentoring.” The top brass and middle managers are being actively coached by employees half their ages. Companies have discovered that interaction with younger…
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Choose your archetype
Dear Artist, As soon as you enter the world of fairy tales or myths, you become aware of recurring types of characters. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung called these characters “archetypes.” He felt that the human race had a shared…
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Going for the light
Dear Artist, I used to know a photographer by the name of Roloff Beny. Roloff was responsible for a dozen big-format coffee table books. “Persia, Bridge of Turquoise,” was well known, as well as his famous, “To Every Thing There…
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Finding Walter Phillips
Dear Artist, Today I’m laptopping you from a place called Picnic Point on Poplar Bay, Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada. Right now there’s not a picnicker in sight — there’s no one here save the loons and the warblers.…
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Understanding studio stress
Dear Artist, These days there’s a growth industry in what has been called the “modern epidemic.” Stress-related disorders affect 80% of the population. Funny, you’d think that there might have been more stress in the old days when folks were…
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The sewing box
Dear Artist, Among my mother’s personal things that were left in her room was an old sewing box. Attached to the lid was a hand-written note: “Dear Sara, Your dad gave me this sewing box in 1951. He brought it…
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Mother’s day
Dear Artist, The day before yesterday my mother died. She was one month short of her 90th birthday. It had been expected — she went peacefully at home. My mom was born in Huddersfield, England. Her father was killed while…