As I painted, I thought about how Georgia O'Keeffe honed in on detail. She nearly gave up on art making after her academic training and the need to make commercial art to support herself. She came back to life when she discovered the work of Arthur Wesley Dow, and then began to create the work she is famous for.
As I painted, I wondered. Was the way she painted just the way she saw things and couldn't see any other way? Or was it a way that she taught herself to see?
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