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Dear Artist Experimenting With a Material You've Never Worked With Before
A new creative medium meets you without expectation. Something happens in that encounter that the long-established practice has organized away.
Sep 1
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Kathryn Vercillo
12
3
Dear Artist Who Reaches for a Particular Material When the World Is Too Much
The material you reach for is doing physiological work your body already understands. Sensory creative regulation is already happening in your practice.
Aug 4
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Kathryn Vercillo
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9
1
Dear Artist returning to embodied practice
Are you asking what this medium offers, what it requires, what it produces in this body right now, rather than what it produces in general or in theory?
Jul 7
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Kathryn Vercillo
7
5
Dear Artist Who Can't Work Anymore in the Same Medium You've Used Your Entire Life
The creative medium loss that comes with a health change is proportionate to the depth of what was built. Here is what that depth contains.
Jun 7
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Kathryn Vercillo
10
1
1
Dear Artist Who Feels Like Your Body and Your Medium Are Fighting Each Other
The friction between you and your materials is carrying information you have yet to finish reading.
May 31
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Kathryn Vercillo
11
3
8
Dear Artist who has never experienced "flow"
Creative work without flow is still creative work. The making done in full wakefulness knows things the effortless work never had to learn.
May 24
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Kathryn Vercillo
10
8
Dear Artist who keeps trying to override what your body is telling you
The body is not your opponent in the creative life. It is your most consistent informant.
May 17
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Kathryn Vercillo
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1
9
Dear Artist who dreads the moment before beginning ...
Your body is in one state, ordinary life, the awareness that belongs to ordinary tasks and ordinary time, and the work requires a different state…
May 10
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Kathryn Vercillo
10
6
Dear artist whose creative process feels embarrassing ...
There's no need for creative process shame... the process you actually have is more intelligent than the one you think you're supposed to have.
May 3
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Kathryn Vercillo
9
3
4
Dear Artist Who Can Only Work When the Conditions Are Exactly Right ...
The conditions you're waiting for are real, and they are also telling you something
Apr 26
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Kathryn Vercillo
12
1
11
Dear Artist who already has a theory about what's "wrong"
The story you carry into self-discovery is worth looking at. It may not be true or complete or serving you anymore.
Apr 19
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Kathryn Vercillo
7
5
8
Dear Artist who has complicated feelings about the growing use of AI
Definitely use it? Definitely don't use it? A lot of creatives aren't sure what they feel about this, yet, or how to share what they feel. And that's…
Apr 12
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Kathryn Vercillo
17
6
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