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INSPIRATION vs PERSPIRATION

Greg Ruth

As artists we always in making our work, dance with two partners, and we are often held to the same regard as most pop cultural ideas of art making, the artist pondering some vital landscape... the artist receiving like a ball of light the revelation of some new piece... When in fact more than 80% of the total experience of making art is sweat and grit and work. It speaks well of the distilled and…

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GHOSTS!

Greg Ruth

October 24, 2025 - Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as things go... there's such a strong response, almost visceral lizard-brained one to something so gossamer. Even today I still live in a big old victorian house that by all rights should be haunted, but if it is, they seem to be cool with us or at least work opposing shifts. Regardless the result is an obvious Victorian flavor to all…

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