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Michelle Lucas
By nealejames | April 23, 2007
Business and life coach Michelle Lucas visited Breathe today for commercial portraiture. The photography brief required quite tradition head and shoulder shots, although with some creative cropping and off camera eyeline focus, I think we’ve achieved a less contrived tone. I took some time to check in with Michelle’s online assessment of my career path and personal potential. A series of dropdowns rates how much you love your work and whether you feel you have reached your full potential, although the latter seemed to be judged by academic criteria. Having spent two decades in a touchy feely creative role, I felt a little at sea, searching the dropdown for something that related more fully to me. See, my talents were not in applied mathematics or physics. At school, I excelled in art. My piece de resistance being an interpretation in clay of the Venus de Milo. Sadly I hadn’t popped breathing holes through the base into what was in effect a large air chamber. If you’ve ever seen the kiln results of a ’clay air bomb,’ you’ll know what happened next. An entire fortnight of 6th Form work in one firing was systematically destroyed. Having said that, after my recent visit to the Tate Modern, the rubble that emerged that afternoon from the oven could have prompted an interesting contemporary art exhibit. I never became a Master Potter.
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