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Art & Fear

Not everyone will love your artwork. If everyone you meet says they love it, they are lying to your face.  How do I know this? Well it’s rather simple and you probably already know the answer. Art is subjective and no two people will experience it in the same manner, we all experience it individually and privately within our minds we explore creativity without a map, bumping into things we connect with and do not. 

Last December I took a trip to Los Angeles to visit my family. To my luck and surprise I planned this trip exactly a week before the fires broke out. Outside of delicious food and family laughs I gotta visit the LACMA galleries for the first time.

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Planning a Monochromatic Print

Some people hold the idea that art is created by the chosen few with all of the ‘God-given talent’. That a drawing is only good when it's drawn by hand or that CNC machines that carve blocks for relief prints should not count as true printmaking.

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