Earlier in the year, I made my way to a gallery across town on my lunch break to see an exhibit of Chuck Close's. I'd heard his name bandied about and checked him out online but (no surprise to any of you), seeing his work in real life was astonishing.
If you ever have the opportunity, don't let anything stand in your way.
Knowing a bit about his life story...the incident that put Chuck in a wheelchair...made the experience all the more humbling.
So I have the postcard promo piece from that exhibit in my cubi at work. In it, a self portrait of Chuck is staring straight out at me. When I feel tired, discouraged, full of self doubt...Chuck stares me straight! How can I put off artwork just because I'm tired or grumpy? How can I let the circumstances of my life get me down? Not with Chuck watching me!
What a life well lived. To not only make imaginative, fabulous art, but to inspire artists way down the food chain.
I'm never throwing that postcard self portrait out.
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