After Thirty | Death, Change, and Time: Natalie Settles
By Interview Issue 100
It’s possible I will look back on my thirties as my most transformative passage.
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By Interview Issue 100
I’m a little jealous of my thirty-year-old self. I miss how cute she thought she was. Her goal was to play as much as possible, for whomever, whenever, mostly solo because it was cheaper.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Collaboration and Community: Sedrick Huckaby
By Interview Issue 100
I would like to say that since turning thirty, my work has become more efficient, that I have learned how to say more with less. Unfortunately, the reality is quite the opposite.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Collaboration and Community: Letitia Huckaby
By Interview Issue 100
But the Deep South always drew me… I became obsessed with cotton, photographing it almost like it was a rose.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Collaboration and Community: Leslie Iwai
By Interview Issue 100
I’ve experienced more beauty than I could have hoped for or imagined, both aesthetically and relationally.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Collaboration and Community: Theodore Prescott
By Interview Issue 100
Artistic desire led me back to the world I thought I’d escaped—computation.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Erica Grimm
By Interview Issue 100
I have learned that time is a gift, and never to waste it. Sit in silence every day. Trust you inner voice. Lean into what you do not know. Cultivate curiosity, love learning. Never trust fear. Ask questions, and through making, try and make sense of things. Art-making is an unknowable, untamable, wild form of inquiry. You never know where it will take you.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Marianne Lettieri
By Interview Issue 100
The accumulation of my diverse life experiences coalesced at middle age into conceptual themes of memory, community, and place-making—groups of stars forming imaginary patterns in my mind.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Wayne Forte
By Interview Issue 100
It has been rewarding but also difficult to reclaim the childhood that I left in the Philippines. I left when I was three years old, taking only sensory memories and the memories I carried in my blood.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | The Path of Vocation: Olga Lah
By Interview Issue 100
As my artistic life grows, my spiritual life also matures; as I practice listening to the Spirit, I become a better artist. In who I am and in my work, I am striving towards creating a space where divinity meet the ordinary world.
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