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On relationships.
There are 50 of us at McAlpine - New York, Nashville and Atlanta. The studios are bustling with very
divergent types of work. Once we form a relationship with a client, they tend to stay with us. What happens
to them happens to us. If they get interested in Aspen, or they want to do a winery in California, we follow
them. They invite us into their life adventures.
On HIS INFLUENCES.
I’m just a kid from a sawmill town of 300 people. What influences me is not the world, because that was not
around me. I think sometimes the calling comes from exposure, but oftentimes it comes from the anemia of what
is not there - and you are called to make something that is the way you feel and what you understand. From that
comes a calling to create something that reflects the way you feel, and what you understand.
ON Offering advice.
Record your attractions, and what keeps you moving. Be curious about why, run it down and try to figure it out for
the rest of your life.
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