DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARTIST | Artistic Roots

Our childhood experiences fundamentally shape the adults we become, helping to determine who we are, what we care about, and what we are drawn to conceptually and aesthetically. Looking back into your past to identify pivotal, formative experiences and then using those experiences to trace the manifestation of your identity in your work can be very illuminating.

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FAIRY TALES

Einstein famously advised that reading lots of fairy tales to children would ensure the development of intelligence and creative imagination. This collage (right) features influential books from my childhood. I am pictured here at age ...

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