Melinda R. Smith

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I have made this work for myself, and so I must do it, I must do the work I made for myself to do. I do not have to like doing it, but do it I must, and so here I sit, doing this work I made for myself to do, and so far I think I have told you nothing about the process of making art, while at the same time, the only thing I am speaking to you about is process. It is so frequent that a thing is both itself and its opposite, it is probably always that things are like that because all things carry within them every value of aliveness and of course death as well, we are all luggage for death, it cannot be otherwise, we were not born without death.