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Soulskin: Seeding the Prairie  created by Susan Lordi Marker 1999, nylon, iron, copper, pigment, 76"x41"x3'

Three things make a good painter
1.  love to do it
2.  look closely at paintings by others
3.  learn all you can     

(above text found in 2000 journal copied from somewhere unknown)

When I teach, I show my students excellent examples by other artists, such as this piece by Susan Lordi Marker

I have written more about this artist on Modernist Aesthetic.