What To Do When You’re an Artist and You Feel Like Sh*t

Frank Rodick
8 min readSep 25, 2018

Way back in 2013, I googled “self-esteem” and here’s what I got from a site called Psych Central:

Have you wondered about what self-esteem is and how to get more of it? Do you think your self-esteem is low? Do you know how to tell? Do you know what to do about it?

Self Portrait with Raised Bare Shoulder / Egon Schiel, c.1912

We’ve been gnawing on this bone for a long time. Writers have churned out…

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Frank Rodick

Photo-based artist whose work is exhibited and collected internationally. He writes about art and creativity, fog and mirrors. See frankrodick.com.