February 10

All of us are creative. Some of us get the mirroring to know we are creative, but few of us get the mirroring to know how creative. What most of us get is the worried advice that if we are thinking about a life in the arts, we’d better plan to have “something to fall back on.” Would they tell us that if we expressed an interest in banking? It could be argued that as people and as artists, we are what we are—however, we also become ourselves, all of ourselves, by having our largeness mirrored back to us. Too often we lack such mirrors. No magic wand taps our life to make us into what we dream.