<![CDATA[Stories by Frank Rodick on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@frodick?source=rss-2313a9513776------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*Oz4vrkGsXSMfac7cYTPocA.jpeg Stories by Frank Rodick on Medium https://medium.com/@frodick?source=rss-2313a9513776------2 Medium Sat, 14 Nov 2026 22:38:37 GMT <![CDATA[No Maggot Lonely: Thoughts from a Life in Art]]>

A short essay on how and why

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Walking through a parade for the blind

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]]> https://medium.com/counterarts/blood-money-and-reveries-273b7e6daef?source=rss-2313a9513776------2 https://medium.com/p/273b7e6daef Mon, 31 May 2021 23:16:22 GMT 2021-06-30T22:45:18.469Z <![CDATA[Stories of Love and Betrayal: On Making My Mother’s Portrait]]>

When the young woman at the Mount Royal Crematorium handed me her remains, she said, “That’s the lightest box of ashes I’ve ever seen.”

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I watched him die, but it took me ten years to realize I needed to make pictures of the loneliest man I ever knew.

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

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On self-esteem and getting to work

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In which the artist discusses falling apart, what he found in old shoeboxes, and the problem of representing the unknowable.

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