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Dr. Lisa Shares: How Our Self-Esteem Affects Our (Art) Work

I’m taking a sabbatical

Dr. Lisa Shares: How Our Self-Esteem Affects Our (Art) Work
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Dr. Lisa Shares: How Our Self-Esteem Affects Our (Art) Work

I’m taking a sabbatical

Dr. Lisa Shares: How Our Self-Esteem Affects Our (Art) Work

I’m taking a sabbatical. Hopefully a relatively short one, but I’ve rented a studio to make work for Bushwick Open Studios and I have to use it. As we all know, time is running out. The good news is when I told my BFF, Margot about my taking time off from the column, she jumped up and down and said, “I want to do it, and I want to do it!” More about that later…

Anyway, the emotional machinations I went through to come up with this personal compromise brought up a lot of issues for me…

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