Interviews
"If it is absolutely necessary for art or theater to serve any purpose, it will be to teach people that there are activities that are useless and that it is essential that they exist."
-Eugène Ionesco
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Somewhere in between
I realised I should trust those first takes, my intuition and instincts. A lot of inspiration for my work comes from the things that I feel, imagine, remember, long for, love doing or wish I’d be doing more.
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Fragments from a cereal box
They include small, flat ceramic figurines that I make based on tracings of drawings my Gramma did for me when I was around four years old. She would draw them on the backs of cereal or cracker boxes, and I’d lay them out on the TV room floor.
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Between weight and form
Photography for me is an anchor memory of experience, a trace of encountering another presence. In the studio, I work with figurative vessels shaped by rhythm, body and intuition, searching for verticality, weight and volume while allowing material and emotion to merge into form.
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Going up the country
Bringing raw materials and canvas into my studio was so eye opening and humbling. It’s a different process and I’ve had quite a few learning curves, but it’s been so fun and worth it. Something that I face a lot is when an idea doesn’t come out as planned.
Places
“A city is like an animal. It has a nervous system, a head, shoulders, and feet. Every city is different from every other: no two are alike. And a city has collective emotions.”
-John Steinbeck
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Baldío
La principal influencia siempre ha sido, y será, lo que aprendemos de escuchar y conocer a comunidades campesinas de México. Cada decisión que tomamos está guiada por cómo podemos tener el mayor impacto positivo para que esas familias y proyectos se vean beneficiados.
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Calienna
We wanted to build a place where plants, design, books, and a great café existed together, not just as a concept but as a genuine daily experience. We never thought of it as strictly a plant store. We wanted to build our own world.
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phil
Nothing here follows a master plan. The interior, the walls, the posters, and the more than 4,000 books used as decoration all grew organically over two decades. We call it ‘curated disorder’, and it is the deliberate opposite of a polished, over-designed café.
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Fenster Cafe
Success is not a state, it’s an episode. After every high, the move isn’t to expand, it’s to get stronger. We learned that the hard way after record sales, rapid growth, and nearly losing everything. That lesson shapes every decision we make today.
Writing
“Sea cual sea nuestra condición, siempre debemos hacer lo que queramos, y si queremos emprender un viaje, entonces debemos hacerlo y no preocuparnos por nuestra condición, incluso si es la peor condición posible, porque, si lo es, estamos acabados de todos modos, ya sea que emprendamos el viaje o no, y es mejor morir habiendo hecho el viaje que hemos estado anhelando que ser sofocados por nuestro anhelo.”
-Thomas Bernhard
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Sincronía
Si no estás sincronizada con el flow —con la gente saliendo del metro o la luz verde en un cruce— puedes marearte. Necesitas cierta inconsciencia para avanzar. Basta que uno pierda el compás para recordar lo cerca que siempre estuvo el desastre.
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Mujer, pájaro
Precisamente ahora, que me senté a meditar, vino a mi cuerpo el dolor que estaba distrayendo con pantallas, y pude escuchar el cansancio de mi espalda. Ahora que exhalé el aire que estaba guardando en mis pulmones con tanta ansiedad, se destapó la cloaca de mi garganta y se evaporó el sabor a podrido que…
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Mi casa rosa
Mi casa, ¿cuál casa? ¿Qué casa? ¿Mi casa quién? ¿Mi casa dónde? Todavía no entendía por qué corría tan desenfrenada y sin gritar. ¿Mi casa quién? ¿Mi casa dónde? A vos te costaba la poesía y a mí me costaba el poema. Yo solo quería saber ¿dónde estaba mi casa?
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Tirarnos por fin al vacío
En Estados Unidos los accidentes de coche suceden porque la gente está acostumbrada a seguir las reglas, y cuando alguien las rompe todo se vuelve un desastre. En otros lugares el desastre ya está incluido desde el principio. No hace falta que alguien lo rompa. La gente está lista para que pase cualquier cosa: vive…
Magazine
“I'm always so amazed when people talk about a definitive edition! How can an author not regret an awkward point or an adjective? It's absurd.”
-Jorge Luis Borges
Prints
“Personally, I can't live without my art. But I've never put that art above anything else.”
-Albert Camus
Books
"I'm not one of those who only thinks among books, inspired by books; however, I tend to think outdoors, walking, jumping, climbing, dancing, especially on lonely mountains or by the sea, where the paths themselves become thoughtful."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
