{"id":2653,"date":"2016-08-04T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T22:21:30","slug":"a-way-to-avoid-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/a-way-to-avoid-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"A Way to Avoid Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clich\u00e9s can be difficult to avoid. So, you need to instead find something that\u2019s yours, and work from that. Whether you appreciate this fact or not, you possess a unique viewpoint. It\u2019s just that your world is so familiar to you that you don\u2019t realize how unique it is.<\/p>\n

In college, I made a painting of Mona Lisa\u2014after she dyed her hair red. I thought this made it somewhat novel, but it wasn\u2019t 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\u2014common 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\u2019t mistake that which seems mundane to you, for actually being so\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Clich\u00e9s can be difficult to avoid. So, you need to instead find something that\u2019s yours, and work from that. Whether you appreciate this fact or not, you possess a unique viewpoint. It\u2019s just that your world is so familiar to you that you don\u2019t realize how unique it is. 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