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podcast episode 5: breaking down layers of contradiction w/ camille hoffman

in this episode we sit down with mixed-media artist and educator camille hoffman. her work has been featured in museums and galleries across NYC and she's currently teaching at both cooper union and bennington college. our conversation centers on her art, and in the process we discuss topics from the eurocentric legacy of painting, to manifest destiny, to environmental ethics, to the complexity of living in the context of 21st century capitalism.

podcastDaniel ChenSeptember 8, 2019artist, mixed-media, assemblage, landscape, mixed, filipinx, painting, eurocentrism, materials, environment, ethics, manifest destiny, nature, interconnection, complexity, contradiction, sustainability

crashing waves

"the crashing wave is not proof that the dead are among us; rather the wave is evidence that death is merely conceptual, not real. life is the perpetual recomposition of energy, the transfer of energy from one material body to another. from human body...to elemental wave"

blogDaniel ChenSeptember 1, 2017force, affects, wave, interconnection, aloha, energy, natureComment