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I have been an artist for nearly four decades. I have painted on canvases and hundred-foot walls. I have made drums from burning tree trunks at midnight and beyond. That relationship with fire moved me into welding and sculpture with fire and steel. I have collected Venetian trade beads that are five centuries old and held them up to my ear, listening. I have facilitated community murals with hundreds of people who had never held a paintbrush. I have worked with heart and bra

Nobody tells you this in art school: you will spend a significant portion of your career doing things you have never done before, figuring them out in real time, and hoping nobody notices.

There is a question I get more than almost any other: How did you become an artist?