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About Jesse: Jesse Draxler was born in rural Wisconsin, studied in Minneapolis, MN, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A formal mixed media & inter-disciplinary artist, Draxler has exhibited extensively both domestically and internationally.
Draxler had solo exhibitions in New York at the Booth Gallery in 2017 and 2016, and has been in exhibitions across Europe at galleries in Munich, London, Paris, Hamburg, and Berlin. Draxler collaborates with brands including Hugo Boss, McQ Alexander McQueen, and Ferrari, with original artwork appearing in Elle, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among other publications.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- The path of friendship
- The intentionality behind social media
- Thinking about the motivations behind what you are doing
- Dedication within your craft
- Artists relation to sports
- Mental fortitude and willpower
- The meaning behind Jesse’s latest show, “Table of Losses”
- Letting artwork play itself out
- The payoff of patience
- The sense of urgency that comes with social media
- Having a sense of mental separation between yourself and your artistic practice
- Ego death
- Copying yourself and it equating to an artistic death
- Jesse continually re-inventing himself
- The emotional weight behind the artwork
- Taking criticism as an artist
- Modern and Post-Modern art
- Moral limits, and how art challenges your morals
- Finding inspirations within everyday life
- Jesse’s music project “Reigning Cement”
- Jesse’s “Love, hate” relationship with his environment
- Collaborative pieces of art being influenced by the environment
- The concept of a suffering artist
- Success and drive
- Understanding and creating from a place of purpose
- Setting goals within life
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About Yasmine: Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity. Her recent work includes immersive installation, fiber etching, and mixed media collage using personal archives and found imagery.
Diaz has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, and the Torrance Art Museum. She is a recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (2019) with works included in the collections of LACMA, UCLA, and the Arab American National Museum. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- The background behind the title of Yazmine’s latest show “Soft Powers”
- The concept of “code-switching”
- Navigating different worlds within the world we live in
- Cultural differences Yazmine has experienced and how it has personally developed in her work
- Growing up within two different cultures and countries
- A nuanced discussion on arranged marriage and forced arranged marriage and the hardship that came with it
- Online dating and “matchmaking” and how it has affected our world
- Yasmine’s journey to New Mexico
- Poverty, capitalism, and the disbursement of power
- Yazmine’s current work and why she chose the 90s as a timepiece
- Engagement between the artist, the content, and the viewer
- The business of art and the complications that come with selling art
- “Social practice” of art
- The complicated reality of morals and ethics within different career fields
- The concept of death and knowing what you stand for
- Being intentional of why you want power and resources
- The dynamics between parents and children
- Subminimally thinking about art
- Yazmine’s latest work
- Transforming style over time
- Authenticity
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About Pádraig: Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and theologian from Ireland whose poetry and prose have been published widely across Ireland, the US, and the UK. He presents Poetry Unbound with On Being, a hugely successful podcast where he explores a single poem. Short and unhurried; contemplative and energizing, this podcast had more than a million downloads of its first season. The second season starts on the 28th of September. Mondays and Fridays for twelve weeks.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- What Padraig’s poem means to him, reflecting back on it
- Life being circular
- Padraig’s writing process
- The beauty in the confluence of various things coming together
- Padraig’s roots within writing poetry
- Embracing the flourishing of life
- Isolation within artists
- The “peasant poet”
- Cultural conflict
- Shelter and the shadow
- Leaning into self-discovery within our life
- Considering things that have been ingrained within us and actively challenging their purpose within our live
- Poetry being the unfolding of the unexpected
- Finding beauty within the imperfections
- Being interested in looking
- Meditation within daily life
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About Colin: Colin Frangicetto is a multidisciplinary visual artist, musician (Circa Survive & Psychic Babble), and podcaster (The Cosmic Nod). He lives and works in Portland, OR.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- The genesis of Circa Survive
- Colin’s experiences with psychedelic drugs at an early age, and how it affected his view of life in both the present and future
- Empathy towards others
- Being present with an individual
- Lessons learned within political unrest
- Learning to intentionally listen to those who you disagree with
- “Being your own Buddha” and living the teachings you subscribe to
- Colin’s journey with ayahuasca
- Intentions of reciprocity
- The concept of giving and taking
- Homelessness being on the rise within L.A. and Portland
- Giving your life to the arts
- Life as an artist
- The difficulty of not being able to tour throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
- Circa Survive’s “rhythm of touring”
- An artists’ work turning into a brand
- Being connected to yourself and being comfortable in your own skin
- Genuine artists and self-proclaimed artists