A Way to Avoid Clichés

Clichés can be difficult to avoid. So, you need to instead find something that’s yours, and work from that. Whether you appreciate this fact or not, you possess a unique viewpoint. It’s just that your world is so familiar to you that you don’t realize how unique it is.

In college, I made a painting of Mona Lisa—after she dyed her hair red. I thought this made it somewhat novel, but it wasn’t my cheeky gimmick that most viewers noticed. The part folks paid attention to was the background. I painted a silhouette of pine and spruce trees—common to where I grew up. Others in the class found this notable, because they lived in a different climate (a rainforest). To me, those trees were just trees, but they turned out to be part of my unique visual vocabulary. So, don’t mistake that which seems mundane to you, for actually being so…

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