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What a fun idea!!!

I came across a November 27th article in Vulture Guides by Jerry Saltz about the 33 ways to be an artist.  Because it is such a long article, it has been bookmarked for later reading.  BUT, I did come across this great exercise in it:  Build a Life Totem.  Wow, that could be great fun!!!

To do it -- you can use any material on any surface to make a four-foot-tall totem pole of your life, and you have a week to complete it....period!  The intention is for you to create something in which others should be able to know something about you other than what you look like or how many siblings you have.  You get to include anything you want e.g. words, letters, maps, photos, objects, signs, etc.  Be ingenious!  When finished, there is a sharing component to the exercise as well.

Imagine if you had created the totem below, what do you think others would 'get' about you from it?  Would they think you're female, a free spirit, a bookworm, a follower of rules, a gardener, an engineer, well-organized, bohemian, and on and on?

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Art appears to have been done by Tiffany Schmierer

To read the full article or to find out more about this exercise's sharing component, click on this link:

https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/jerry-saltz-how-to-be-an-artist.html

I'm going to try it...because the idea jazzes me!

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