Thyme in the Studio: Art & Wellness

Dez Mon Omega Fair is an interdisciplinary artist and poet living in Long Beach, California. Their work explores storytelling and self-reflection, delineating the cathartic opening of joyance availed by the art making process. They achieve this expressive art through painting with water, brushless watercolor, and ink on washi; collaborative documentary film projects as well as experimental forms of poetry. Pioneering novel sonics which explores the use of long-form soundscape and audio recordings of riddles, prose, poems and chants.

Public performances are set within large-scale immersive installations consisting of figurative watercolor paintings and poetry

sourced from abstractions of the heart and emotional histories of the body.

So many beautiful takeaways form this interview and I love this reflection,

“There is no me without you and no you without me.”

So excited to share with you a conversation I had with Dez Mon Omega Fair. We met years ago and I was immediately enchanted by Dez’ graceful way of being in the world. They showed me their paintings, which at that time were colorful abstracted figurative work on thin japanese papers. We ended up living together for a few years and It was so wonderful to catch up with them and hear about how Dez art continues to evolve year after year, The residencies he has attended, finding the love of his life and continuing to make work and always experimenting and discovering new ways to share his vision.

I also loved listening to some of his latest Novel sonics, which Dez graciously allowed me to share at both the beginning and end of this episode! and I love what Dez had to say about the Black Madonna!

Intro and outro Novel Sonics by Dez’Mon Omega Fair

Intro: “At the Cross” by Dez’Mon Omega Fair

Outro: “Poems Post Vogue” by Dez’Mon Omega Fair

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/dezmonomegafair/

https://dezmonomegafair.com/

Film and Video Poetry Society

https://www.fvpsociety.com/

http://www.thetonypatrick.com/

Black Madonna:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDgyP-SIKd6qf9vYDOi5gQ

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

I see some of the struggles that folks face as new parents and specifically noticing what new mamas are dealing with. Today’s episode is focused on breast milk and postpartum nutrition which could also be applicable to any human who wants to feel more nourished and vibrant. New mamas need extra nutrient density. The experience of growing and giving birth to a babe is a stressor on the body and a mom may be depleted. I’m going to talk about some of the top 15 foods, 15 herbs, and top 10 supplements a person could take to boost vitality and may help with milk production.

Disclosure-I’m not a doctor- do your own research and consult a licensed professional with the knowledge that you get to be the ultimate authority of your own body. Do what feels right for you. I’m not here to diagnose or prescribe. I am here to educate and entertain.

Oh another disclaimer. This episode might make you hungry.

Writing these show notes had me running to the kitchen for more snacks. So just as you don’t want to go to the grocery store hungry, you may not want to listen to this episode hungry.

Grab your trail mix and lets hop to it.

Breastfeeding info handout and Hot Mama Muffin recipe available a

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

Links mentioned:

https://www.kirajoie.com/

https://thematrona.com/

https://www.innatetraditions.com/your-free-gift-reproductive-mental-health/

https://www.divinebirthwisdom.com/

https://www.medicinemaiden.com/online-store

https://www.divinebirthwisdom.com/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses colors found in

nature that are not typically associated with “natural” colors and focuses

on landscape as her primary subject. Her paintings are strongly influenced

by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e.

Kishita’s paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections,

including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is

featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog, and Studio

Break podcast, as well as in several literary journals. She exhibited at the

Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of

Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her

BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts.

Was so great chatting with Michele Kishita, artist, writer and teacher about living in Japan and how that time has influenced her art, how her view of artist residencies has shifted and some of her resident highlights. She also discusses her experiences working with gallerist Bridgette Mayer and synchronicities that occurred that made it feel like the right choice to work with an art coach. She teaches writing and gives some great tips for cleaning up your artist statement and she has some great book recommendations and unconventional tips for gowing tomatoes.

About her recent body of work: Absent Futures

Absent Futures is a new body of work on shou sugi-ban (burnt timber)

panels that addresses the current state of deforestation and the

opposing concepts of resilience and devastation. While our forests and

natural spaces continue receding due to industry and suburban sprawl,

the more catastrophic losses are occurring in the rainforest where

swaths the size of forty football fields disappear each minute.

Suggestions of landscape painted onto the burnt surfaces depict a

memory of what was while at the same time highlighting what remains

and can still be salvaged. It is a reminder of the persistence and

vitality of nature and our role in choosing its success or failure, which

ultimately determines our own.

Her work in general:

“My current work investigates the dialogue between the wooden surfaces on which I paint and the trees from which those panels were built. I highlight the interconnectedness of humans and nature, while addressing life’s impermanence and transience. Industry's straight lines and angles try to control nature, transforming a tree’s rounded mass into flat rectangular sheets; yet, the wood grain’s undulations, marking the tree’s growth and annual water intake, emerge despite its new, boxy confines. A tree's experiences are indelibly written on its interior and at the same time are a historical account of the landscape itself. In my paintings, I strive to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each panel while expressing the visual contrast and harmony where human-made structures and nature intersect.” from www.michelekishita.com

I also want to speak the name of Jacob Blake and send prayers to his family and loved ones. Yes we still need to disarm the police and restructure the law enforcement and justice system in this country. Oh and the medical and education systems could use an overhaul too. We have work to do. Please register to vote and please do whatever is in your power to vote.

https://www.vote.org/

So excited to share with you the conversation I had with Michele Kishita

Links:

www.michelekishita.com

https://www.instagram.com/michelekishita/

Thymelights:

NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland

https://neslist.is/

SPAR, St. Petersburg, Russia

https://artresidency.ru/

virtual residency at SPAR right now

https://virtualresidency.p-10.ru/author/michele-kishita/

Pasha Meskhiev aka Norkus - @norkusupdates

: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-0eJH9DMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfhQJVegyGY

Sueyeun Juliette Lee -

https://silentbroadcast.com/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sueyeun-juliette-lee

Links mentioned:

The Hidden Life of Trees

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discoveries-Secret<...

Gigi Bisong is a speaker, author, publisher, and life coach. ​ her passion is helping you connect to your truth center. She does this by helping you learn to be ok with your most insecure parts, knowing those parts are far from your entire truth. She holds space for you so you can shine and your divine self can come through fully. Gigi develops meaningful, innovative programs to align others to their unique genius so they can bring their gifts into this world and truly embody their calling.Don't miss out on the FREE wisdom and guidance of black women to learn more about deeply caring for our emotions, collectively healing, and HONORING our Blackness in a world that still has injustice and racism.

Her summit brings together the wisdom of over 20 educators. In the meantime I think you will get so much out of hearing how Gigi came to understand her truth and felt the power of others stories moving through her. She is such a powerful speaker and connector of other people and I also love what she has to say about couples therapy. Does it work and why or why not?

Ooh and in the spirit of connecting more with others I am hosting a giveaway. Never done this before but offering a piece of pottery to a special someone! It’s a cup I made in 2020 and perfect for a little sip of water, tea coffee or wine.

Super simple to enter Just

1.go follow@ thymeinthestudiopodcast on instagram

2. Tag 3 friends on a post

3. Go to thymeinthestudio.com and sign up for my newsletter

And for a bonus entry share your favorite episode to your instagram stories and be sure to tag me so I can shout you out!

So excited to share with you the conversation I had with Gigi Bisong..

Links:

https://www.gigibisong.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gigi_bisong/

https://adoredontignoreblackwomen.com/

https://video.tpt.org/video/gigi-bisong-zead6l/

Thymelights:

https://instagram.com/sunkissedhealth?igshid=10mp0f79eeyo

https://instagram.com/bwspeak?igshid=g0fv5y4qiloc

https://instagram.com/fazayahrose?igshid=aadgmxz4sieo

https://www.instagram.com/crafting_the_future/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

so excited to share this episode #72 with Kelly Buwalda. We get into dance, thai massage, performance, why do babies dance and how we innately crave rhythm. We talk about singing to dogs, dancing for water with children and moving on air on rooftops. What am I talking about? Listen to find out more!

This episode is full of ideas to get you moving and shaking and climbing mountains in your mind and in the world. For example, Kelly was inspired by another quietly strong woman to climb Kilimanjaro for her 40th birthday and she shares some of the struggles and support from that journey. 

A little bit more about my guest today.

Ways to get inspired and move more and how our efforts and accomplishments are 

Kelly Buwalda is an artist, educator, and adventurer. She is propelled by creativity and fueled by connection. Originally from Indiana, she has been creating and collaborating in NYC for nearly 20 years.  After acquiring her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance & Psychology at Hope College (Holland, MI), she trained with National Dance Institute (NDI), a far-reaching dance education program founded by Jacques d'Amboise. She became a Teaching Artist with NDI in 2005, and has since taught thousands of elementary students, and directed At the River's Edge, NDI's 2018 "Event of the Year."  As a dancer, she performed for numerous project-based companies, working with choreographers Mei-Yin Ng, Erin Dudley, and Julio Rivera.  In 2010, she graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and became a certified Health Coach.  Years later, she studied Intuitive Thai Therapy with Sarah Seeley, and currently offers wellness sessions for groups and individuals. Kelly was awarded a 3-month artist-in-residency at Chez Bushwick in 2014, and her choreography was selected for Detroit Dance City Festival in 2016 & 2017.  She will be premiering solo dance films created during COVID with filmmaker Fred Hatt on February 3, 2021.  Among these and other pursuits, she loves her new role as dog mama.

About to hop to it , but before we do, I have a major favor to ask. If you like this show, please share it with a friend. Big thanks to you for your support, for listening and for doing what you do!

Lets jump in! cha cha cha. 

Links

https://www.instagram.com/buwalda.wellness/

https://www.instagram.com/eyesofbuwalda/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.etsy.com/shop/AidaZeaArts

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by @corrinarepp

https://www.instagram.com/corrinarepp/

Topics covered:

Long Version available on Patreon:

Meditation

Behind the scenes

Kintsugi

Hilma af Klimt

Accessible art

Enneagram

Criticism and feedback

Short version:

What brings us together

Helping, healing connecting

Childhood

Birth order

Aspirational

Performance

Ritual of costume choreography and production

Gotham writing courses

Moving to music

Babies dance to the beat

Heartbeat as the drumbeat

Impulse to move to music

Honoring teachers

Jacques d'Amboise-as an influential teacher

1st thing we ever hear is the heartbeat

Big bang and the big move

Studying with Christine Wright

Starting class with meditation

Starting from our senses

Grasping when a fish out of water

Language centers in the brain

Analytical in dance

Getting back to the lower part of the brain

Overintellectualizing

Dance trance

Less about what I think and more about what I feel

Music and dance work together in cross hemisphere. 

Feeling safe allows for deeper creative exploration

Auditioning process

Principles of ayurveda

Techniques to get grounded

Sensitivity during the creative process

Energy visible in the body.

Magnetism

Pulling in and channeling energy

Star energy meditation

Drama/wisdom of Martha Graham

Expansion and contraction

Physicality helps to land

Being tired can increase mental clarity

Sense of de...