I observed the friendship between Eva and Sol. Eva talked about her fear of drawing and her experience with him. Sol did his best to encourage Eva to continue painting. Sol tried to use previous experience to encourage Eva and to show her the importance of trying repeatedly when it fails.
In addition, he advised her not to watch what the community would say about art like a teacher.In the first paragraph “Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering…” Sol LeWitt wrote a list of actions that people without confidence would do when they lack confidence. From this list of words we can interfere with Eva’s anxiety about artistic creation. No matter what she wrote there must be something about her lack of confidence and cowardice. So in this reply LeWitt used parallelism to tell her do not do that. We can feel his strong emotion from these words. Making artwork is not about self-doubt and stagnation.When I first began to study art, I always had too much worry about the preparation of creation, which made me worry about trying new things. My teacher helped me a lot, and he taught me how to have confidence in myself. Sol played a similar role for Eva.
In the end of the letter, Sol wrote “DO” in very large scale in his hand writing letter. This word takes up almost a quarter of writing paper. The font of this word is in bold capitals with many arrowheads pointing to the center. Thus, readers can feel the importance of this word.
