great advice

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Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning...searching, perching, besmirching, grinding grinding grinding away at yourself. stop it and just DO...trust and tickle somthing inside you, your "weird humor." you belong in the most secret part of you. don't worry about cool, make your own uncool...if you fear, make it work for you--draw and paint your fear and anxiety. and stop worrying about big, deep things such as "to decide on a purpose and way of life..." you must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. then you will be able to DO! i have much confidence in you and even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good. try and do some BAD work/ the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell.

Sol LeWitt's advice to Eva Hesse in a letter. April 14, 1965

I saw an exhibit of LeWitt's work at the Austin Museum of Art. I find the mathematical and logical but arbitrary rules in his work interesting. though his work is not exactly moving, this letter is.