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Pablo Picasso once famously said “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”[1] and elsewhere that “Art is a lie that makes us realise truth.”[2]
Great artists recognised the razor’s edge upon which they walked as artists, to have the vulnerabililty and emotional porousness to be “a receptacle” of all things and the immense fortitude required to wrangle with the responsibility of creating ‘lies’ which makes us realise the truth.

Maintaining this excruciating …