Should an artist be a conservationist? Are we obligated to conserve for the next generation? These are questions frequently asked in my workshops by other artist’s. My answer is always YES! But not as an artist, as a member of society. People on the whole need to adopt a new attitude of preservation and regeneration to ensure a functioning world for the next generation. Our rate of consumption far surpasses our means of regeneration and our greed and need for commerce pillages our natural resources...

This is a post I did on my own site and though its subject matter applied to just about everything in business. Hope you enjoy it.

Need for thick skin
So you have decided to be an artist and you are going to give the world the most perfect piece of art work it has ever seen. There is only one problem with that theory, our perception of perfection is very different from one to another. So now you have put your heart and soul into a piece of work that consumed the better part of...