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Blurred Lines Between Reality and Imagination

Reprinted from First Coast Senior Living, October 6, 2025 St. Augustine-based artist John Gerstner is no stranger to reinvention. With a career that spans journalism, photo journalism, video production, and multimedia storytelling, Gerstner has lived at the crossroads of communication and creativity. A former magazine editor and award-winning book author, Gerstner is best known in […]
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Why People Work

This article was published in the John Deere Journal, 1974. Social scientists say we work not just for money but for a whole range of other human needs and satisfactions. Benjamin Franklin was a great lover of work. Pinching time as if it were pennies he labored long hours through most of his 84 years–earning […]
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Painting Fiction vs Painting Non-fiction

Much of art can be considered non-fiction: a reflection of reality, captured with varying degrees of accuracy. The goal seems to be to put on canvas a replica of what the eye can see, though of course it is never exactly that. Even the Mona Lisa, celebrated as one of the most famous realist paintings, […]
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