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The light comes and throws them into stark relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I teach art, all aspects of it, as well as creating my own art.\u00a0 I also help other creative people find methods and systems to help their creative passions take shape.\u00a0 By finding my own way, I light the way for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This necessitates day to day time planning on my end.\u00a0 I am a person who can take flight into the cerebral and get lost in bits of fabric, paint, color, material, and ideas for days&#8211;the passage of time loses all meaning\u2013-and I come up for air hours or days later, wondering whether I remembered to take the keys out of the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I have to block off my time for that.\u00a0 I must find balance between my art and all the pieces of life that allow me to create it.\u00a0 My students and clients teach me at least as much as I teach them, if not more.\u00a0 And, of course there is\u00a0 family, house, the electric bill, and perhaps a ditch or two to dig and maybe a driveway to shovel, wood to bring in, grass to cut\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was in graduate school at Rhode Island School of Design, I discovered in my final year that I was able to go deep into research to write articles and my thesis, OR deep into studio to create art, OR deep into what I call \u201cthe other side\u201d ( commonly referred to as left brain) to get my classes prepared, my teaching done, and the clerical side of gallery shows and my finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the years since then, my life has gotten richer (which means more things in it). 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