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    “Can anyone be an artist?”
    Joel Klepac
    • Apr 12
    • 4 min

    “Can anyone be an artist?”

    When faced with studio time, I am often both excited and terrified. Much of the terror comes back to what it might mean to be an artist....
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    Auxier Ridge Trail- Red River Gorge
    Joel Klepac
    • Mar 24
    • 1 min

    Auxier Ridge Trail- Red River Gorge

    Recent drawing from a hike on the Auxier Trail in the Red River Gorge. I recently finished Wendell Berry's book on the gorge quoted...
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    The Force of the Waterdrop
    Joel Klepac
    • Feb 12
    • 1 min

    The Force of the Waterdrop

    " It has the force of the waterdrop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a...
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    "Just Keep Making Stuff"
    Joel Klepac
    • Feb 7
    • 2 min

    "Just Keep Making Stuff"

    “I no longer ask whether and how long my works will outlast me,” Matisse told Gotthard Jedlicka, who visited him in his hotel room in...
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    What is Encaustic Painting?
    Joel Klepac
    • Feb 3
    • 2 min

    What is Encaustic Painting?

    Encaustic Painting has a long history going back to the Egyptian Faiyum portraits. Painted by combining colored pigments with beeswax...
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    Science and Beauty
    Joel Klepac
    • Feb 2
    • 1 min

    Science and Beauty

    "The true definition of science is this; to study the beauty of the world" Simone Weil p258 The Need for Roots
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    The Miraculous is Not Extraordinary
    Joel Klepac
    • Jan 28
    • 1 min

    The Miraculous is Not Extraordinary

    “The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of...
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    In the mystical moist night-air
    Joel Klepac
    • Jan 27
    • 1 min

    In the mystical moist night-air

    A Larger View Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me When I was...
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    "An impressive sun shines on us all"
    Joel Klepac
    • Jan 27
    • 1 min

    "An impressive sun shines on us all"

    "...he may have been too dazzled by the great light of his experiences to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all. Perhaps that...
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    The Magic of Art
    Joel Klepac
    • Jan 27
    • 1 min

    The Magic of Art

    Peering into the balcony for some time, I sat with the window open with my 10 by 10 sketchbook on my lap. I fell in love with the...
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