In this episode, we wander the surprisingly rich world of WALLS.

Until my guest, Rhea Karam, crossed paths with me, I saw a wall as rather one-dimensional—an upright structure that simply divides or encloses space. But after speaking with Rhea, I better understand the rich meaning baked into walls all across the world. Walls are very much living, breathing entities that can teach you a lot if you stop and give them a chance.

Rhea Karam is a New York-based artist who spends a lot of time with walls all over the world. She basically has a PhD in walls… and she’s deeply in love with them.

In this episode, we wander the surprisingly rich world of WALLS.

Until my guest, Rhea Karam, crossed paths with me, I saw a wall as rather one-dimensional—an upright structure that simply divides or encloses space. But after speaking with Rhea, I better understand the rich meaning baked into walls all across the world. Walls are very much living, breathing entities that can teach you a lot if you stop and give them a chance.

Rhea Karam is a New York-based artist who spends a lot of time with walls all over the world. She basically has a PhD in walls… and she’s deeply in love with them.

In this episode, we wander the surprisingly rich world of WALLS.

Until my guest, Rhea Karam, crossed paths with me, I saw a wall as rather one-dimensional—an upright structure that simply divides or encloses space. But after speaking with Rhea, I better understand the rich meaning baked into walls all across the world. Walls are very much living, breathing entities that can teach you a lot if you stop and give them a chance.

Rhea Karam is a New York-based artist who spends a lot of time with walls all over the world. She basically has a PhD in walls… and she’s deeply in love with them.

Our world is "always-on," and there's often too much going on. In the art world, you usually have to shout and dance your way to being seen. But some artists find calm while living inside that storm. They arrive on their own terms, with a kind of grace and tranquility that feels increasingly rare.

My guest, Kalle Hellzén, makes art that does exactly that. His paintings don't demand your attention or try to shout you in. They simply wait for you to discover them. And once you do, they take hold. The colors draw you in, and then the stillness holds you captive. In thought.

When I met Kalle, he was working in advertising, just like me — but he walked away from that for some CALM, and became an artist instead. No degree in fine arts. No formal training. He's even color blind. None of those held him back. If anything, it's the opposite: color blindness became the very thing that made him a master of color in a way I can only dream about.

When DEVOUT is spoken, religious ears twitch. Our minds go straight to faith, extremism, hard lines, absolute conviction. But artists can be some of the most DEVOUT people in the world, and it often has nothing to do with religion at all. That same intensity, aimed at making, questioning, provoking, can become something entirely different. Something beautiful.

Some people spend their lives searching for something to believe in. Others simply find something worth giving their lives to. That's DEVOUT.

And that's my guest, Darryl Fossa. He's a Berlin-based artist with zero religion in his blood, but an unwavering dedication to the things that matter to him: his art, his wife, and her homemade granola, for starters. Darryl is rather soft-spoken. His artwork is not. It shouts from its own pulpit, with a very clear, very powerful message.

In this episode, we wander the world of DARK and explore what that means for art and artists alike. My guest this week is New York artist Reka Nyari. From a very young age, she was drawn to the DARK and disturbing. If Reka is ever in a city with a torture museum, she’s visiting it (and it turns out there are quite a few of them). Reka’s work captures stories of the skin—the good, the bad, and the DARK. She almost always photographs against a black background, draining the color from her subjects. Lately, Reka has focused mostly on women, showcasing them in their rightful place as gods and creators.

My guest this week is Jay Indigo. When I look at his body of work, I see a man that spends a lot of time in different worlds. He draws the aliens that were around before humans existed. His music and films take us into the psychedelic dream world. He is an astral traveler. (I had to look it up, but it's basically means he has out of body experiences.) And he's an Afro-Surrealist - a group that's constantly digging deep under the skin of contemporary culture. Jay talks about how he deals with Social Media, what the future of art looks like and why he always zags when the world zigs.

In this episode, we talk to Erica Elias about FACES. I'll tell you right now, I could do 100 episodes on this topic. It's a thick and juicy theme, with content that runneth over. I've had to leave so many stories and ideas in pixel purgatory this time around. Erica is a self-taught artist living in Belgium, and in a way, faces found her. Once they wove their way into Erica's work, they took up residency and have never left, becoming vessels for the subconscious thoughts that flow while she paints.

In this episode, we talk to Gary Copeland—writer, poet, photographer, and boxer. Gary embodies RAW: unfiltered, honest, emotionally direct. But what makes him invaluable is that he doesn't keep it to himself. In this episode, Gary shares raw advice on getting started creatively and why living authentically might be the most important creative practice of all.

In this PLAY filled episode we talk to artist Elisabeth Condon. She was smoking cigs before she could light a match, which might surprise you because she was raised by strict Christian Science parents.

Sage's STORMY life has flung him into deep darkness, but as his life cracked, light made its way in.

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