Deb Dila - Alone Time & Old Buildings

08/04/20 • 44 min

Authentic Obsessions

Takeaways

Be more open and generous and accept what is in the world right now.
Science and art are great places to learn how to question everything and how to look out for yourself.
Sometimes calamity happens and then it just backs away again.
All art comes from something you’re expressing. Even if you’re not ready to hear it yourself, it might be time for someone else to receive it.
It would be really hard to be the sand reckoner.

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Deb Dila’s website

Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Pier Gustafson

Hamlin Lake, Michigan

Takeaways

Be more open and generous and accept what is in the world right now.
Science and art are great places to learn how to question everything and how to look out for yourself.
Sometimes calamity happens and then it just backs away again.
All art comes from something you’re expressing. Even if you’re not ready to hear it yourself, it might be time for someone else to receive it.
It would be really hard to be the sand reckoner.

Mentioned in this episode

Follow Deb Dila on Instagram

Deb Dila’s website

Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Pier Gustafson

Hamlin Lake, Michigan

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Ben Seaman - The Evolutionary Process

Takeaways

Try everything.
Getting started is a new battle every day.
Even though we paint for ourselves, we need to know that the notes are not flat when the audience hears them, and that the message is landing.
Racism is the concrete manifestation of greed.
Self-worth is an inner game, and the feedback you get on social media is about the art, not about you.

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Benjamin Seaman’s website

Art and Fear, Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Paper FiftyThree

More information about Internal Family Systems

Brooklyn Art Library’s The Sketchbook Project

Delaware Valley Arts Alliance

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Ben briefly mentions “rapid fire exquisite corpse” and I had to look it up and share this in case you didn’t know about it either! Cadavre exquis (exquisite corpse) is a collaborative drawing approach first used by surrealist artists to create bizarre and intuitive drawings.

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Mindy Sue Wittock - The 80's

Takeaways

When you can tap into the honesty and be who you really are without worrying about how other people see you, that's where true self happiness starts.
Sometimes you have to change what success looks like depending on the week. But all of it helps the artwork go where it needs to go.
You can find magic anywhere.
Sewing is an act of repair and an ancient way of brining things together so they can’t come apart again.
Objects are just objects.

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Wondermakers Collective website

New Kids On The Block

Axl Rose

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