A Letter to My Younger Self on Life, Art, and What Really Matters

Becoming an artist meant learning to create for myself, not anyone else

Frank Rodick
THE SMART VIEW
Published in
12 min readDec 29, 2018

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Me, circa 1964. Photo: Frank Rodick

Dear Frank,

Your elder self is charging into winter. To be more exact, it’s the hours that charge forward; I follow, slower and less certain. When the time comes, you’ll find me less a comet and more like…

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Frank Rodick
THE SMART VIEW

Photo-based artist whose work is exhibited and collected internationally. He writes about art and creativity, fog and mirrors. See frankrodick.com.