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| ethos celebrating things living and
communicating - in a planet-wide, 'Gaian' sense intrigue in the responses from diverse materials and how they contribute to the work work ideally needs to be viewed in the round, from all angles both near and further away The Frink School is a figurative school, and such training gives understanding of one language of form, albeit one which we are universally familiar with (on both physical/anatomic and emotional/humanity levels). One might say that you cannot expect to simplify/distil the essence without an understanding of the complexities involved in what one is trying to convey 'believability' - a rather naive measure of success/failure for my own work, probably based around some notion of natural order natural order probably equates to "order with tolerances"... i.e. completely different from anything mechanised or random an appreciation of not yet quite grasping what is happening in emerging works and that others' responses to work may help inform portraits - accepting that there are qualities that emerge purely from close observation without the need for anything but for what the sub-conscious can add; a conscious acceptance that those qualities have something to do with the natural abstraction/distortion that occurs between the eye seeing and the hand marking close observation allows subtlety and sensitivity dexterity can only help retain such qualities - humility and tenderness - in the work
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