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Eranos and the Archetype Database


Lauren Panepinto

Last month I did a long post about how to not rely on Google images to do your image research — for a lot of reasons, including originality, accuracy, and avoiding AI sludge filling up search engines. The short version of the post is to start using better/vetted databases. And one I forgot to add is worth a whole post in itself, for the kind of things we do in fantastic art. Let me introduce…

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ASK A GREG 2


Greg Ruth

July 4, 2025 - So,  for those of you unaware, this is the second round of Q&A's collected by asking the public on social media to submit questions- any question at all related to art and artmaking as a career or a simple hobby,  I have plucked a few that seemed helpful to you here reading this. I do a lot of interviews but most of them are really specific to the project they are there to promote or the same usual sort of boilerplate questions I get in them overall. This series has been an interesting place to explore questions I don't usually get or rather get to field and answer publicly the way I often get to in person at a class, a media tour or an open studio event. Each is from a raft of inquiries…

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