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E_ma's avatar

Loved this reflection. One thing that comes up: art students are often encouraged to do master studies (i.e. copy works of the masters). Not to reproduce the work, but to have an embodied knowledge of how making a certain work feels. References are encouraged to be seen as a lineage of artists you are joining by making the work that would naturally be in conversation with theirs, temporally. I find these bits helpful to remember when someone is seeking "an original" or when I judge someone for what I perceive as copying. It's all an evolution - and one has to start with what's already there.

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Talia's avatar

Love these honest words of reflection and excavation of inner blocks. And love Julia Cameron too 🤍

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