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Need a dose of creativity and accountability? Hosts Monica and Candace are prioritizing ART and talking about it in a real way. One take, no script, and no filters… just two humans inviting listeners in for a fun weekly chat about what they’re making now and what is inspiring them.
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Speaker 1
right.
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Speaker 2
Hello? All right, we're here. This is as we are. Episode 14.
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Speaker 1
As we art. We are a podcast. We are a YouTube channel. And we are glad you're here.
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Speaker 2
We are also human beings.
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Speaker 1
We really are. We pass the.
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Speaker 2
Test. Yes, I think so. I think so. If you poke us, we bleed. So?
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Speaker 1
So we started this, podcast 14 episodes ago. 14 weeks ago. To talk about the art, the real art that we're working on, the present moment this week in real time and sharing it with you. And we want to know what you're working on that's creative or artistic.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Share with us. Build a community. And I'm Candice.
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Speaker 1
Oh yeah. Our names. Yeah. I'm Monica. We do this without a script. We don't have a plan. We hope we introduce ourselves every week. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Who knows? We'll find out.
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Speaker 1
Yep. We also talk about what's inspiring us. What themes are coming up a bunch. What new things are showing up? What's inspiring us to remain creative or to keep slogging through this? This is a just a weird time in history. We're trying to be human. We're located in the United States of America. I mean, I think at any point it's a weird time to be an American, but especially this week is extra hard, I think.
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Speaker 1
So we're still making art. We think it's worth it. And we want to know what you're working on, and we want to know what's inspiring you. So please share with us in the comments. Yeah.
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Speaker 2
Yep. What do you want to talk about this week? I lost my train of thought. I'm sorry. I was like, yes, that all sounds good. And then everything just derails.
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Speaker 1
Your turn to type. Yes. Well, I was just as soon as I see the.
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Speaker 2
Light leave my.
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Speaker 1
Lights. As soon as I said. Share in the comments. I just want to clarify, because some people watch on YouTube, which is awesome because you're getting the visuals and they comment, right? And the YouTube video, we love that. And some people are listening to a podcast and they're like, can't really comment on that, right? There's no like, I hope that not that I know of.
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Speaker 1
If I'm.
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Speaker 2
Commenting somehow on a podcast, we don't understand we're new here.
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Speaker 1
Or we're missing it, but some people have been commenting on our Instagram as We Art podcast. So that works as well. But the other thing for comments, questions, suggestions are coming in through email.
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Speaker 2
Yep. Did our cat just meow? But gosh.
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Speaker 1
We are recording and you can't be part of it right now. Sorry, Bubs. Yeah, the reason why we can't let him in or our daughter either or two cats, is because this podcast corner is part of a larger room. That's our art studio, and we're stained glass artists. We don't like cats in here because glass.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah. Don't have your animals near your stained glass studio, please.
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Speaker 1
No, we don't like little.
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Speaker 2
Pieces of glass you can't see. And there was worse than the glass.
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Speaker 1
Although that is a really good point. The little glass dust it gets in their pores, it's all the fumes.
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Speaker 2
The chemicals? Yeah.
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Speaker 1
The lead?
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Speaker 2
Yep.
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Speaker 1
Glass dust in the air. So we don't let our cats and we wear masks when we work. So what was that?
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Speaker 2
Before they knew about lead poisoning, they were like, ooh, stained glass artist. There's some crazy people. There's a reason from the lead.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, I feel like I was saying something before Spinney voiced his concerns. Oh, email. You can send your questions and comments now through email.
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Speaker 2
Which is as we art podcast at gmail.com.
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Speaker 1
Yes, and we got our first email last week from your listener friend.
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Speaker 2
Double clap. Yay double clap.
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Speaker 1
Yay, Marty. And he will be receiving art from us because we wanted our first email and that came. So that was awesome. Okay, what art did we work on this week? Who's going to go first?
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Speaker 2
I think you might need to move your mic a little bit closer to your mouth. I feel like I can't hear you as well as usual.
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Speaker 1
There. How's this? That's better.
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Speaker 2
Okay. What did I work on this week? Let's see. I did not, like, produce any new art, but I did do things that were involved with art. So I. We had both submitted some pieces to a gallery for, an upcoming juried exhibit, and we both had pieces accepted. So. Yes. That's amazing. And it was your first.
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Speaker 2
It was my first linocut I've ever submitted and it got accepted. I feel really good about that. It's very nice. Oh. Thank you. But it was really fun to go to the opening and see our art on the wall. I have not submitted to a gallery in a long time, so it was fun to just get, like, a little refresher of that feeling of, oh, this is actually fun to, like, share my art with other people and also be there to talk to other artists, experience their art.
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Speaker 2
It's been a while, so it was a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1
And when we went there, it was an opening. It was the opening reception of this show. The theme was Out of This World and your framed linocut called No Complaints, which if you're regularly listening or viewing this podcast, you're familiar with. But don't worry if this is your first time here. Welcome! Just jump on our Instagram because every week we put accompanying accompanying, accompanying photos of syllables.
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Speaker 1
We post some photos that go along with each episode, and you're going to want to see that because it's really something to see your art framed on a wall with other artists. And we went to the reception and got to talk to other artists. Yeah, people viewing people who work at the gallery. It was just so nice to be out because most artists stay in their studios and most artists, I mean, maybe, maybe not.
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Speaker 1
Maybe they go out and sell their art all the time, but we stay inside a lot in our studios. We don't, like, have a ton of in-person connections with other artists. So it really was nice for everyone to kind of get out.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, hang out, be in, be in public. And, I don't know, try to remember how to socialize.
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Speaker 1
It's not always easy.
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Speaker 2
No.
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Speaker 1
That's awesome. That is really great that that was your art this week. Yeah, it was fun.
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Speaker 2
And you know, I have some ideas for what I'm going to work on before the next episode, but we don't talk about what we're going to work on. So we only talk about what we are currently working on.
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Speaker 1
That is true. We both do have a lot of ideas and stuff just in those beginning brewing stages, but that's not what this podcast is about. We want to know what we actually hands on did. Yep. That's great.
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Speaker 2
What about you, Monica? What do you do this week? Yeah, you know, I.
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Speaker 1
Really got into my writing this week. I was when the mood strikes, it was awesome. But I had some motivation about behind it. So for those of, you know, if you follow along, the short story I wrote called Doing Time with Virginia Woolf, I am making that, adapting it. I'm changing it into a play. I still have my short story.
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Speaker 1
Love it. But the play is an hour long, one act play, a dialog with two women in a prison cell. And I just it was just flowing. I had already written a lot of the topics in the short story, but now I'm trying to make it a realistic, back and forth, real dialog between these two women, and it's going really well.
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Speaker 1
And the other thing that happened this week with that writing process is I got to speak to the theater stage manager of the local of a, of a particular local art scene that they happen to have a small, intimate, experimental theater. It only seats like 40 people. And it's just the most perfect setting for a really simplistic play, with a simple set and a small cast.
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Speaker 1
And there's even an opening potentially opening on their calendar for later this year. If I can get my button gear and get them a script by a deadline. He gave me a deadline.
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Speaker 2
Nice time to start chugging.
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Speaker 1
I know he was really intrigued by the premise, the concept. He was glad I already have almost 30 pages written. That's awesome. I just lied. It's only I have 22 pages written but I that's it.
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Speaker 2
Can't do it now.
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Speaker 1
Well I said told him I have about 30 because the goal is 50 to 60, which would be an hour long play ish. And so I told him I have about 30 pages written and I just told you that same line, but that's that's fine.
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Speaker 2
It's fine. It's just a small exaggeration. You will have 30 pages written and now you have a deadline.
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Speaker 1
So I have a deadline and it's the end of April. You guys, that is two weeks away. We're doing this in real time every week we record and a new episode comes out every Tuesday, so we are keeping you in the loop by the end of April. He wants to see a full on draft script so that he can start imagining if it will work in the theater, helping me cast it, helping me with the logistics of my ideas for set design because I have zero experience with theater ever, which might come as a shock to some people because I'm very comfortable.
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Speaker 1
Like, you're very animated, animated.
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Speaker 2
You know, projecting my voice, the person that everyone's listening to or not paying attention to.
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Speaker 1
Oh, I want people to pay attention to me, but I've just never been on a stage. I've never done theater, never even been interested in that sort of realm of art. I like watching other people do it, but this is just so exciting. And so I'm writing this play. I might direct it, I might be in it. I don't know the details yet, but this deadline has really motivated me.
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Speaker 1
The other thing I did artistically this week, which was so awesome, was I attended, a writer's workshop different than the play, which is fiction. This writers workshop was specifically for memoir, and that nonfiction memoir writing, my nonfiction essay collection that I'm working on. And it was so great. The facilitator was awesome. The writing association that put on this particular workshop did a great job.
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Speaker 1
It was totally worth my time. Which is good, because sometimes you attend these things and it's like, this was a good one, and it motivated me. It gave me a new ideas, new angles of how to approach memoir writing, because I get stuck sometimes, and I don't know if any of you listening. I've ever tried to write something personal about your life.
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Speaker 1
You. I get stuck on what was the experience of others around me? What might they what perception perspective did they have that might differ? That doesn't matter. And it was great. I don't have to worry about other people's perceptions. So it was just really nice to get like permission and some guidelines on some writing tips. It was really helpful.
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Speaker 2
That's great. It's always nice when, like you said, the speaker is really helpful in it. Yeah, I it's so interesting because little conferences like that, I feel like about 70% of the time they're not exactly what you expected. And you're kind of like, well, I'm glad I attended, but it wasn't what I thought it would be. Yeah, but every now and then you go and you're totally surprised and, it's way better than you thought it would be.
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Speaker 1
So I know, and I love that setting. I was just I was always one of those students that love to sit up front. I love taking notes. I loved like looking up to the teacher and absorbing everything they were talking about. I'm that person.
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Speaker 1
And so when I do go in those situations and it's kind of a let down or they're just not really comfortable facilitating, you don't get good bang for your buck. This was different. She was incredible.
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Speaker 2
That's awesome. I avoid conferences like the plague. I know, I know, that's just me, though. I've always been that way.
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Speaker 1
You think of them as a chore, like a work. Like if your job makes you go to, like, a teambuilding event.
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Speaker 2
If it's job related. Yes. That's just a way for you to get me to work for free. Which, if any of you were on LinkedIn, that's exactly what that is. I'm just saying, what do you mean? Getting you to work for free?
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Speaker 1
What do you mean? What do you.
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Speaker 2
Mean? Because you are spending time outside of your job to tout how good you are at your job and not being paid for it? I hate LinkedIn.
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Speaker 1
Oh, I'm not. I'm not on LinkedIn, but I'm.
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Speaker 2
Not either for that exact reason.
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Speaker 1
Okay, but do you have an.
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Speaker 2
Opinion about LinkedIn?
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Speaker 1
Okay. But also is it to kind of like promote your work or your company?
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Speaker 2
It's for people to network. It's basically just it's a social media platform. To talk about, hey, look what I've done as far as a job. I get paid for it. But you're putting all this time, effort, attention into reposting articles and networking with people outside of your company. You are working for free. Okay? Just do it on the clock.
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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, LinkedIn should 100% be an employer paid event. If it's a place that you need to be for your job.
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Speaker 1
Oh my gosh. I have a quick anecdote about working for free, working on the clock. It's kind of funny. I'll try to say it quickly, but a friend of mine works at a corporation, and the boss of her department gave everyone a book, some sort of inspirational book. I don't know the name doesn't matter, but a book that he wanted everyone to read.
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Speaker 1
It was some trendy book about how to be more effective in the office. I don't know if it was something to do with work, though, and he hadn't written or anything. He just bought everyone a copy and he said to them, I want you to read this. He didn't like it wasn't part of their job description, but he said, I want everyone to read this.
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Speaker 1
We're going to be discussing it. So my friend sat at her desk, didn't answer the phone or work on her computer, and started reading like she would sit there at her desk with this hardcover, paperback, whatever it was, and just be reading. And her colleagues and even her boss were like, what are you doing? I don't you have work to do?
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Speaker 1
Aren't you supposed to be busy? Don't you? And she's like, yeah, this was a sign. This is a I'm not reading at home for free off the clock.
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Speaker 2
If I had a whole 100% on that friend's wavelength, I know, but also signs it works should pay for it.
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Speaker 1
Agreed. But everyone else read it on the subway or read it at home in their own time. And she's like, absolutely not. You're welcome to make this a requirement of my job, but I'm doing on the clock. They had a whole meeting with her. HR got involved, didn't change the outcome.
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Speaker 2
She's not wrong. I just saying, okay, that's what LinkedIn is now. It's so funny.
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Speaker 1
So yes, I had a wonderful facilitator and it it helped me look at my writing differently and are wonderful. Time with you at the art opening to see our work. I had a piece of work also included in the art show Double Clap. Yay yay! The piece that got selected was. It's called The Reefers World. And if you've been watching this.
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Speaker 1
Oh, this frickin court. Hold on. Okay, if you've been watching this podcast, you've seen me talk about this piece of stained glass, this work of stained glass I recently completed. I freaking love it. It's so good. And it made me happy that it was in the show. It's a woman reading a book under a tree, but the glass I use it just came out beautifully.
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Speaker 1
I think the other, piece of work that I submitted to the juried exhibit was not selected. It was called overflow, and it has a profile of a mirror glass and a lot of different color triangles, and they had a lot of art submissions. It could only select a certain number. And so I was really happy that one of mine got selected.
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Speaker 1
But the other one I have posted on Etsy.
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Speaker 2
Yay!
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Speaker 1
I'm so happy because we talk about posting our work and making it available instead of just leaving it on a shelf in our in our studio, and I'm so happy it's out there. I know it'll find a new home someday. It doesn't matter how long it takes to sell. I'm just so glad it's out there. Yes, for the world that makes me happy.
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Speaker 1
So it was a good art week in that sense.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. That's awesome. That's great to post it on Etsy. We have like a lot of things we need to post that are just lying around. Like Monica said, but it's so overwhelming sometimes, especially when you have a lot of things to post. The administrative part of selling art. Is so time consuming. Again, working for free, it's for.
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Speaker 1
Ourselves and we would love to hear from other artists out there. Do you schedule a specific day to just do all your administrative work? Do you do it as you go? Do you build up a few projects and then dump it on Etsy or have a drop on your website? We would love some feedback about how what's working for you.
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Speaker 1
Yeah, we do want to post more things. Our stained glass side of things is called Glass over Teakettle, and we've had it for years, and we used to be a lot more, prevalent on Etsy, active on Etsy. But years have gone by and so I'm like, well, I'll put this piece on Etsy. But we do want to know how other artists handle it or if they outsource it, you know, do they get someone else to do that post and, respond to all the questions and traffic?
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Speaker 1
We don't know. We're going to just like we do a lot of things. We're winging it. We're playing it by ear and we'll see how it goes.
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Speaker 2
And we just roll with it and see what happens.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So we there's always stuff you should or could be doing more. But yeah we're trying to be a little bit easier on ourselves. That's kind of this whole thing.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. We also love to have some sort of life outside of having to feel like you have to produce things and produce things and then, you know, work your 9 to 5 and produce more and produce more. So, we're really trying to make art for art's sake more often. Instead of trying to make art for the sake of selling art.
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Speaker 2
Oh for sure, we got way overwhelmed with that.
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Speaker 1
In the past.
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Speaker 2
In the past, yes, we were in the past when we did a lot of, like, commissioned work and stuff. Yeah, it was fun, but it hit a point where it was just too much. But,
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Speaker 1
Yeah, well, it kind of hit a point where we didn't feel like our artistic expression was at the forefront anymore. When you do commissions and maybe other artists out there can relate, we were making a lot of beautiful things that other people envisioned that they wanted. They wanted this design or this color or this size. That was wonderful.
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Speaker 1
It was great. And those projects came in and money came in. But we realized, oh, we have so many commissions that we haven't made something from our own imagination, from our own design. In so long we were losing our artistic freedom. And we we flipped it. We start taking commissions. And we've been happier artists since. I'm so glad you mentioned that, because it's it's a toss up and you're so flattered when people commissioned you to make something they're like, oh, they like our art.
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Speaker 1
They want. But there's another side to it that we had we had to go through it to learn. Yep.
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Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Speaker 1
Inspiration. What's inspiring you this week, Kenny?
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Speaker 1
And Candace, we're on our podcast. For those of you who are new here, Candace and I are married. We've been together over ten years. Each other married to each other.
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Speaker 2
And, I have a little something in my eye.
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Speaker 1
Don't cry.
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Speaker 2
Just so happy.
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Speaker 1
Yeah. So inspirational.
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Speaker 2
Candace, my inspiration this week is the weather changing. Finally, finally. It's starting to feel springy. It's starting to get warmer. The days are longer. I don't log out to work at 5:00 in the dark, which is great. Yeah. It's just. It makes me feel more productive. I'm like a human of, seasonal cycles. So I feel a lot more productive in the spring.
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Speaker 2
And summer. In the fall, I kind of start to hunker down. And then in the winter, I'm basically hibernating. So it's hard for me to get motivated in the winter, whereas in the summer or spring, it's a little bit easier for me to actually get started. So it's starting to feel like spring right now, and it feels really nice.
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Speaker 2
It's very inspiring to me.
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Speaker 1
We we have a busy backyard. We sure do. All these animals coming out of hibernation or torpor state and it's mating season and wild turkeys and raccoons. We had raccoons the other night. We have a wildlife camera, which is wonderful. We wake up every morning and check what happened during the night. And the raccoons were mating there. Right there, going at it.
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Speaker 2
Some raccoons were banging.
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Speaker 1
But five feet from a skunk. Yes.
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Speaker 2
So the skunk surveyor and the raccoons are exhibitionists?
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Speaker 1
Yep. Sometimes it's just a place to smash, regardless of who's nearby. But our backyard is busy with mating. What other signs are you getting for spring and summer?
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Speaker 2
Well, because of where we live, we happen to live in a summer destination. There's a lot more license plates from out of state, which is a dead giveaway here.
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Speaker 1
That's true.
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Speaker 2
A lot of Florida, a lot of New York. Yeah.
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Speaker 1
So yeah, a lot of them spend summers here and go back to other homes or spend time here. That's true. We do see some more out-of-state plates. Yeah. We bought. So well it's time to start putting some of our we we like to put flower plants on our steps and stuff. So it does feel good. I'm glad you mention that.
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Speaker 1
As an inspiration. It is really inspiring.
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Speaker 2
Assist with gardening. I will preface that with I suck at it. I can't grow edibles for shit. Tell them like so. Well, I don't do protective stuff to keep the edibles away from wildlife. And we have a very wild yard. They love the woods around us, so it's kind of just like, well, you know, that lettuce was cute.
00:23:14:29 - 00:23:15:24
Speaker 2
Well, last.
00:23:15:24 - 00:23:26:18
Speaker 1
Year. Yeah, but the rabbits are in it. Yeah. We don't do any pest control. We don't want to. And so, yes, Candace spends a lot of time growing these beautiful strawberries.
00:23:26:21 - 00:23:34:22
Speaker 2
Oh my God, to see a chipmunk very excitedly run up to the strawberry, take one bite out of it and run the hell away. That's it.
00:23:34:22 - 00:23:45:09
Speaker 1
One bite. So there's a dozen strawberries on the plant or on the ground with only one little nibble out of it, so we have to just throw them to the birds. It is really funny. I know you like gardening, and someday we.
00:23:45:11 - 00:23:46:23
Speaker 2
Like the act of it.
00:23:46:23 - 00:23:48:00
Speaker 1
So.
00:23:48:02 - 00:23:59:00
Speaker 2
The production doesn't really matter to me as much. I mean, it would be nice to like, taste something. I've grown, but the wildlife samples it for me.
00:23:59:03 - 00:24:20:00
Speaker 1
So we want to know what you're doing. That's creative. And we count gardening. We are not gate keepers of art up in here. So anything you're doing that makes you happy, that is creative. If you're trying something new that counts, we just want people to be inspired to maybe stop scrolling for a little while, do something else. Get in touch with.
00:24:20:02 - 00:24:26:05
Speaker 1
I'm using gestures, using your hands, gardening, cooking, landscaping, whatever it is, whatever art form.
00:24:26:07 - 00:24:38:09
Speaker 2
It all involves creativity and production. Creation. Yeah. So it's all, amazing. It's all art. 100% not gatekeeping art at all. Or gatekeeping.
00:24:38:11 - 00:24:53:28
Speaker 1
Yeah. No gatekeeping or gate keeping. Inspiration. I am glad you mentioned that. Yeah. Good. Good time of year to feel. And it's also like, I love this time of year too, because we do a lot where we're like really into the whole, spring cleaning mode.
00:24:54:03 - 00:24:54:18
Speaker 2
Yep.
00:24:54:20 - 00:25:15:10
Speaker 1
Is this universal? Is this around the world to people in other parts of the world think, oh, it's this is the season to sort of declutter and downsize. It's been really nice to do it. We talked a little bit about it last week when we gave away a lot of plants, and we're still going through that process of just rehoming things, but it feels really good in the springtime particularly.
00:25:15:12 - 00:25:26:20
Speaker 2
Although, I mean, I wouldn't mind living somewhere where there's just like constant spring and summer, so I'm not sure. I know we do talk about discount that for the future.
00:25:26:22 - 00:25:46:21
Speaker 1
We are both from Candice and I. Both grew up in places with four seasons and we are used to that cycle. We like that cycle. It's natural to suffer through the winter in order to come to spring and summer, but we also love the idea of someday living in a place that doesn't get snow. Yes, that that is a goal.
00:25:46:21 - 00:25:55:15
Speaker 1
It's on our vision board. We will make it happen someday. But for now we are really enjoying the seasonal change.
00:25:55:17 - 00:25:57:14
Speaker 2
What about you, Monica? What's your inspiration?
00:25:57:14 - 00:26:24:16
Speaker 1
I was just thinking, I don't I love your idea of using the weather. My inspiration this week comes from, it came from getting a deadline for my writing where. Yes, there is part of me when I get a deadline that feels pressure, right? I like that pressure. I work well under pressure, so I feel like pressure, but I don't want to rush.
00:26:24:18 - 00:27:04:19
Speaker 1
And there's a it's a really interesting thing in my brain. So I'm inspired by having deadlines and project goals. But I also am very conscientious now of trying to stay present, of trying not to rush the art or rush the writing. I want it, I want to enjoy the process as that's my thing. I love the process. So one of the things I realized with the 22 pages of play script that I have so far, and I'm trying to get up to 50 to 60 pages, I was thinking at first, oh, I really need to add a lot more conversation topics.
00:27:04:21 - 00:27:26:24
Speaker 1
But when I reread the pages I had, there was so many dialog moments of dialog where it could have veered off just a bit more, expanded a bit more. And that will not not just as filler. I'm not trying to like, fill in the time, but I can make those conversations, those topics that are really important to me even more meaningful if I don't rush it.
00:27:26:26 - 00:27:54:17
Speaker 1
So it's an interesting place for me to be in this week where I love the pressure of a deadline. I rely on it often. But I don't want to rush. And you know, that happened with the project I'm doing for Stained Glass were inspired by deadlines of galleries with themes, but I have an ongoing project that some of you remember, for a library, the university library where my four panels will be hung.
00:27:54:17 - 00:28:14:09
Speaker 1
Well, I haven't worked on them in a little while because the deadline changed. It was going to be in May and they've shifted it to the fall. And I'm like, yes, so I can put that on the side burner for now and work on more pressing deadlines. So I'm really like inspired by that, that push and pull that.
00:28:14:09 - 00:28:24:05
Speaker 1
It's like a contrast. You have a deadline but you don't want to rush. Yeah, it's it's really a cool place to be and it's a great privilege to be able to be there and recognize that.
00:28:24:08 - 00:28:47:21
Speaker 2
Yeah, definitely. I'm with you, though. I love a deadline like you do. You give me a deadline. I'm not going to hit that deadline. I'm going to exceed your expectations. Yeah, but I can't give myself a deadline for shit. Really? Oh, my God, I'm so bad at motivating myself with a deadline. If I tell myself like, this has to be done by Friday, it's getting done by Friday, like six months from now.
00:28:47:23 - 00:28:50:12
Speaker 1
But if an outsider says we need that by Friday, you're either.
00:28:50:12 - 00:28:51:09
Speaker 2
Done on Wednesday.
00:28:51:14 - 00:29:13:20
Speaker 1
I know, yeah, you are good. Yeah, I think that's. How do you guys feel out there listening? Are you able to give yourself, push yourself, motivate yourself with self-imposed deadlines, or do you naturally just do better when someone else is waiting for that result? I'm both. I mean, I push myself a lot, but I love a deadline.
00:29:13:20 - 00:29:15:24
Speaker 1
It makes me more productive. Yeah.
00:29:15:26 - 00:29:18:28
Speaker 2
But self-imposed deadlines. Do you need them?
00:29:19:00 - 00:29:24:18
Speaker 1
No. Yeah, I don't, because there's no pressure to. I can be like, well, right. There's always next week.
00:29:24:18 - 00:29:28:27
Speaker 2
It's like the threat of consequence makes me like, oh, I gotta do it.
00:29:29:00 - 00:29:37:19
Speaker 1
Yeah, yeah, that's true, I really do. Perform better when there's a pressure from someone else to meet a deadline.
00:29:37:22 - 00:29:54:06
Speaker 2
Yeah. It's funny, it's like, I'm worried about disappointing someone if I don't meet that deadline. But if I don't meet a self-imposed deadline, I'm disappointing myself. So that should be more important to me. Should be. But it's not. Let's put ourselves first.
00:29:54:06 - 00:30:12:22
Speaker 1
Yes, we're working on this. These are just things we're discovering as we come on this podcast every week. For real. We are coming to you without a plan, without a script. And we are discovering stuff about our process, about ourselves. We want to know if any of this resonates with you out there, so keep bringing the comments. Let us know what you're working on.
00:30:12:22 - 00:30:27:07
Speaker 1
Let us know what inspires you. Let us know where you fall into this deadline pressure discussion. And, we're really, really glad you're here. It's so fun to check in and have this accountability every week to keep us going.
00:30:27:13 - 00:30:48:19
Speaker 2
Yep. And to build a community with you like we are so appreciative of everyone watching and listening to as we art. You are all, part of all the processes that we undertake throughout the week and we love hearing about what you're doing, like Monica said. And we're just super, super appreciative of all of you.
00:30:48:22 - 00:31:03:15
Speaker 1
Yep, yep. So thank you for being here. Thanks for sharing with us. With chords and cat cats meowing and other. Yes, discombobulated thoughts. It's just it's natural we're here. We're being ourselves as we.
00:31:03:23 - 00:31:07:04
Speaker 2
Are, as thou art.
00:31:07:06 - 00:31:11:04
Speaker 1
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Speaker 2
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00:31:16:18 - 00:31:20:17
Speaker 1
I think that would be nice and we will see you next week.
00:31:20:21 - 00:31:22:06
Speaker 2
Yeah, bye.
00:31:22:06 - 00:31:22:19
Speaker 1
Bye.