Behind the Glass Gallery - May 2025
The primary focus of this podcast episode revolves around the introduction and exploration of three distinct artists: Corinne, Robert, and Aaron. Each artist presents their unique perspectives and creative processes, highlighting the interplay between their personal experiences and their artistic expressions. Corinne articulates a poignant duality in her work, capturing the bittersweet nature of everyday life through her photography, while Robert reflects on the significance of memories in his artistic journey, showcasing pieces that resonate deeply with his experiences. Aaron, diverging from traditional photography, elucidates his transition into mixed media, emphasizing the importance of reclaimed materials in his work. Collectively, these artists not only share their individual narratives but also illuminate the broader themes of connection, community, and the evolving nature of creativity within the Rochester art scene.
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Transcript
All right, Q.
Speaker A:We back.
Speaker B:You're back.
Speaker B:I've been here.
Speaker C:He's been here the whole time.
Speaker B:Never left.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm so happy.
Speaker B:Thank you for.
Speaker B:For doing the intro there.
Speaker B:As most folks know, I don't feel comfortable doing the intro, so it's always this very awkward.
Speaker A:You can say whatever you want, man.
Speaker D:Just.
Speaker B:Yeah, say.
Speaker A:Say good morning if you're listening in the morning.
Speaker A:Good afternoon.
Speaker B:All the pleasantries.
Speaker B:Welcome back.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:Took a little time off.
Speaker A:I'm back.
Speaker A:And we're going to get rolling with our third crew for the year.
Speaker B:Oh, man, is that third?
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker B:Second.
Speaker A:April, May.
Speaker B:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker C:So many.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So many.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's weird because we take that break in the beginning of the year now where we were going kind of straight through, but it's nice to have that.
Speaker B:That breather to kind of, you know, settle into the year and kind of move forward, so.
Speaker A:For sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We also use that space to recognize the artist from last year for our, you know, end of the year reception, which is pretty cool.
Speaker A:So, yeah, give them that platform for those, what, two months?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then we start up in March, and it's been great.
Speaker A:And we are, you know, doing great with our third year.
Speaker A:We got some great artists in the studio today, and we're gonna get to know them better.
Speaker A:And I think this curation is pretty unique.
Speaker A:Unique.
Speaker B:Q, you said unique.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:It was a word.
Speaker C:I don't think he's in this one.
Speaker A:Yeah, no, no, not Unique Fair.
Speaker A:Shout out to Unique Fair.
Speaker B:I was like, wait, what?
Speaker A:Well, he pulled up on my Instagram as I was scrolling, but yes.
Speaker A:So funny.
Speaker A:But yes.
Speaker A:No, shout out to Unique fair.
Speaker A:Awesome artists.
Speaker A:Yeah, but, yeah, no, definitely.
Speaker A:Q.
Speaker A:I think the creation that, you know, you guys helped, you know, put together is actually pretty unique today.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker B:You know, I think some of it sometimes is kind of shooting from the hip.
Speaker B:We also have a spreadsheet of folks, and then we kind of figure out, you know, how do people, you know, mix and match together?
Speaker B:Which I think is kind of fun.
Speaker B:And, you know, we often talk about how we curate, and it's really more of bringing people together and then kind of letting them bring their own work as opposed to saying, hey, this is what we want you to show.
Speaker B:And it's that very, you know, organic vibe that comes together.
Speaker B:And I think, you know, as.
Speaker B:As we started to set up here today, you know, folks are introducing themselves to each other so they'll get to know each other through.
Speaker B:Through their work.
Speaker B:But then obviously through the podcast today, we'll all get to know, you know, what.
Speaker B:What these folks are bringing, but also their.
Speaker A:Their.
Speaker B:Their background, which is always a.
Speaker B:A fun piece to these podcasts and a piece to, you know, what we do every month for sure.
Speaker A:All right, when we come back, we'll get to know our three artists, Corinne, Robert, and Aaron.
Speaker A:All right, we're back, and we're going to start off with our first artist for the month of May, Corinne Bohen.
Speaker A:How you doing?
Speaker E:I'm great.
Speaker E:Glad to be here.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:No, so Q introduced me to your work.
Speaker A:I was not familiar with it, and once he forwarded over your profile, I was like, you know what?
Speaker A:This is definitely a behind the glass vibe.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, a lot of street photographers, a lot of people that are showcasing different, you know, vantages in terms of how they view the city or wherever they're actually visiting.
Speaker A:It's unique to be able to, you know, see it in other perspectives.
Speaker A:And so I was really excited to be able to have you part of the gallery.
Speaker E:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker E:So I grew up here in Rochester, but I was in the Baltimore, D.C.
Speaker E:area for about 15 years and then moved back with my family right before the pandemic.
Speaker E:And I.
Speaker E:I have my own consulting company.
Speaker E:That's what I do.
Speaker E:You know, it's my day job.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker E:But art has always been a huge part of my life, and I rediscovered film photography actually, just this fall.
Speaker A:Oh, nice.
Speaker E:I had been doing digital photography for about seven years, but I was traveling actually, and I found a.
Speaker E:A Kodak brownie camera at, like, a flea market and picked it up, and it just felt like a little piece of home, you know?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker E:And so I just researched online how to use it.
Speaker E:And then when I came back to Rochester, I went right to Scott's and asked them about it, and they were just so helpful.
Speaker E:I hadn't been to Scott since I was probably a kid.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:And then I remembered that I had found a camera with my dad when I was, I don't know, seven years old, like, just in a park somewhere.
Speaker A:Oh, wow.
Speaker E:And so I did it have, like.
Speaker A:A roll of film in it already?
Speaker A:That wasn't.
Speaker E:I can't remember, but it was.
Speaker E:It's a Nikon FG20.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker E:And so I called him up.
Speaker E:He lives in Pennsylvania now.
Speaker E:And I just said, hey, do you still have that camera?
Speaker E:And he said, yeah, I've got it.
Speaker E:And I asked him to Bring it to me next time.
Speaker E:He came to visit, so he brought it and I brought it to Scott's.
Speaker E:And, you know, I just have been just experimenting.
Speaker E:I haven't.
Speaker E:It's always with me, and it's just like, completely opened up a new part of life for me.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker A:Have you thought about developing and processing your own?
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah, I'm not there yet.
Speaker E:I.
Speaker E:It's still very exciting for me just to bring the film in and, you know, wait to get the.
Speaker E:The scans done and everything.
Speaker B:I think the.
Speaker B:It was, you know, I don't know.
Speaker B:I feel like you had been following me for a little bit, and there were a couple interactions, and then I think Scott had shared a couple of your photos.
Speaker B:So then I was like, oh, wow, this person.
Speaker B:Let me.
Speaker B:Let me follow back.
Speaker B:And there was the photo of your child's eye through the cardboard box.
Speaker B:And I was like, this is such a cool and amazing.
Speaker B:And you kind of, like, buried the lead a little.
Speaker B:So there were like a couple photos.
Speaker B:And then it's like this surprise as you go through the.
Speaker B:The scroll there.
Speaker B:And I was like, whoa.
Speaker B:Like, this is so cool.
Speaker B:And then it made me go back and look at a ton of other photos, and it was just this a very, like, your world kind of vibe.
Speaker B:You know, it didn't.
Speaker B:It didn't really seem.
Speaker B:Seem intentional.
Speaker B:It just more seemed to me more like, this is something going on and I want to capture it, as opposed to, like, intentionally saying, hey, this is a moment.
Speaker B:You know, why?
Speaker B:And how, like, you know, you pick up that camera again and you kind of fell into it.
Speaker B:What was that process for you?
Speaker E:You know, I always have.
Speaker E:I always am noticing everything around me, and mostly had been working in acrylic paint and also printmaking.
Speaker E:But I just.
Speaker E:Just noticed with the photography, like, wow, this allows me to capture this right now.
Speaker E:And it, like, connects me in that moment to what I'm seeing and experiencing.
Speaker E:And just.
Speaker E:It became.
Speaker E:It's almost like a compulsion now.
Speaker E:It's like I can't stop.
Speaker E:And.
Speaker E:And so sometimes it's just.
Speaker E:I'm sitting in my house, I'm with my kids, you know, and I'll just see the light in a certain way or just there'll be a moment I want to capture.
Speaker E:But a lot of times I just drive around the city, and the best thing to do, it's just like, it.
Speaker E:It's just.
Speaker E:It's.
Speaker E:I feel like I'm in another dimension, you know, and there's things that you.
Speaker A:See that just draws you and Then, yeah.
Speaker A:Like, for example, I was looking at your feed also when he shared it with me, and I saw the shot you did in Cleveland, Ohio, of the orange slice, the neon one.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I'm like, I love neon life.
Speaker A:That's just my draw too.
Speaker A:And so whenever I see something like that, I always try and figure out what time of day am I going to come.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:To make sure the light is perfect when I hit that neon so that it can look really great.
Speaker A:So, yeah, no, I definitely see that you actually are drawn to those types of things.
Speaker E:Definitely.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:And what's the.
Speaker B:I mean, I'm scrolling through here.
Speaker B:Is it mostly sentenced to.
Speaker B:Are you.
Speaker E:Are you doing pretty much all Senate still?
Speaker E:800T.
Speaker B:What was it about sinister that kind of pulled you in it?
Speaker E:Well, I mean, it gives me so much range.
Speaker E:You know, it's like I can go out and it can be pretty close to dark and I can still capture things.
Speaker E:And I just love, like there's just this kind of magical, mystical sort of feeling to the.
Speaker E:To the photos.
Speaker E:So, yeah, I just.
Speaker E:I love the vibe.
Speaker E:I just love the vibe.
Speaker A:For sure.
Speaker B:That's like a behind the glass buzzword, right?
Speaker E:The vibe.
Speaker B:Yeah, you meet the vibe.
Speaker B:The vibe.
Speaker B:Check.
Speaker B:I guess.
Speaker B:So you said you were, you know, you were doing some digital work.
Speaker B:You had done the film photography.
Speaker B:Like, what was it about photography in general that, you know, was your.
Speaker B:Became your thing, and then how does it tie into, you know, some of the, you know, your other.
Speaker B:Your other art?
Speaker B:You know, you.
Speaker B:You sent the zine to me recently, and I just loved, like, the way it was laid out.
Speaker B:But you can also tell that it.
Speaker B:There was a lot of care taken in it that, you know, I just love having.
Speaker B:As I pulled your zine into the house, noticed that there was like a stack of zines that had been collecting from different.
Speaker B:Different artists.
Speaker B:And what was it like?
Speaker B:Yeah, what's the.
Speaker B:What's the connection there?
Speaker E:So much of it is about connection for me with other people.
Speaker E:And, you know, just.
Speaker E:It's a.
Speaker E:It's just really amazing to me how you can just.
Speaker E:Like that zine, I just kind of.
Speaker E:It popped into my mind and then it was sort of this puzzle, like, okay, how do I figure out how to do this?
Speaker E:How do I lay it out?
Speaker E:How do.
Speaker E:Then I go and I print it and I make it and.
Speaker E:And I just really enjoyed just mailing it out to people.
Speaker E:Like, I just mailed it out to like 25 people.
Speaker E:And that connection that, like, you know, I'm as Addicted to my phone as the next person.
Speaker E:And I just really.
Speaker E:But I grew up analog, so it's like I.
Speaker E:I know the magic of analog and I want to show that to my kids.
Speaker E:I want to connect with other people in a more direct way.
Speaker E:I think what the digital space brings is amazing and like, connects us at another level.
Speaker E:But like, I, you know, through art, it's very much.
Speaker E:And especially through photography, because I think there's, I mean, there is still interpretation, but with an abstract painting, it's very different than like a photo that like can immediately move you and make you feel connected to another person.
Speaker E:So I don't know, it's just, it's teaching me a lot about myself and it's, it's teaching my kids a lot.
Speaker E:Like, they're watching me and they love that I like, pull the car over and take pictures just randomly and like.
Speaker E:And my middle child, I have three kids, Grace is nine.
Speaker E:And she has become like buddies with everybody at Scott's too.
Speaker E:I bought her a camera.
Speaker E:She comes in with me.
Speaker E:She's experiencing film and she's.
Speaker E:We go on our photo walk.
Speaker E:So like a lot of times, you know, we have an hour to kill between whatever and like, we'll just go around the city and we'll take pictures.
Speaker E:And you know, my son Desmond is seven and yesterday he was having breakfast and he looks out the window and he's like, mom, get the camera.
Speaker E:Like, we have to take a picture of this.
Speaker E:And like, that's just, that's what it's all about for me.
Speaker E:You know, it's just like day to day life.
Speaker E:And like, photography just elevates it to like a whole new level.
Speaker B:Yet they become your spotters.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:My.
Speaker B:My son, who is 16 now, as he's grown up with me with the camera, he's become more of that.
Speaker B:And then as I started getting to street art, he'll be like this street.
Speaker B:Look at that, look at that tag.
Speaker B:And so he's like interested in it.
Speaker B:And so there's a couple of pieces that like, I've given to him to have, you know, you know, from different street artists or whatever in the house.
Speaker B:But he's become the, the spotter where he's like, he sees something.
Speaker B:Hey.
Speaker B:Or he'll, you know, he knows that I like to go out to take photos and he wants to go and do something like, you know, go and get something to eat or fries.
Speaker B:Like, hey, you want to go take photos?
Speaker B:But it's for him, it's code to we're going to go take photos.
Speaker B:That's cool.
Speaker B:But I'm also going to get something out of this still, which I think is kind of cool.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:But yeah, I loved like when you, when you mailed that, you know, I think we don't get as excited about mail as we used to.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Because I can send you an email and it's in your inbox in one second but to receive a handwritten note inside.
Speaker B:And here, here's this piece which I think is kind of cool because I think it's a, you know, it becomes a loss for lost.
Speaker B:Lost form, if you will.
Speaker B:You know, my son again, the 16 year old had to do a project at school where they had to address envelopes and kids are like, what do we do?
Speaker B:Where's the stamp supposed to go?
Speaker B:And so he went through this whole process and I got a letter in the mail from him.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And I was like, what is this letter in the mail?
Speaker B:So as parents we often say yeah, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker B:So I'd been saying we'll see about something for like two months.
Speaker B:And so he had sent me a letter about the thing that I said we'll see about and put a deadline in.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:And I was like, geez, I just get served by my 16 year old.
Speaker B:But again it's that like teaching them that, that tactile that piece.
Speaker B:What's Grace's photos look like?
Speaker B:Have you.
Speaker E:They're all, I mean she's part of Submarine School of Music and so she brings her camera a lot to band practice so they'll, you know, they're at Book Eater though.
Speaker E:They, their space is in the attic there and so she'll take pictures with her friends.
Speaker E:She'll.
Speaker E:And a lot of times like we're taking pictures of the same thing so like we kind of get to see that and we did the six by six together so.
Speaker A:Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker E:It was really great to you know, pick the photos with her, mount them on the mat board and.
Speaker E:But what's so funny about her is like she did not want to give her favorite prints to the six by six.
Speaker E:It was like I hear you.
Speaker E:She's like no, I'm not giving that to them.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's smart.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get something but you're not going to get the best one.
Speaker B:Shout out to Blue and the crew there.
Speaker B:But you know, also.
Speaker C:Yeah, also shout out to Submarine.
Speaker C:Submarine Sounds.
Speaker C:They were on one of our other shows on the Lunchadore podcast network nights and weekends from the Sound.
Speaker C:So they Interviewed, interviewed them and it was really interesting hearing about that.
Speaker C:And some of the music development.
Speaker E:They're amazing.
Speaker C:Going on there and building that, that confidence.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker C:It's hard to, hard to define how important that is to build confidence in somebody.
Speaker E:Change my kids lives.
Speaker C:Well, between that and then the photography, like having that agency of telling a story and being present in what's going on at the moment, those kind of organizations and having that support has to be just amazing.
Speaker E:Well, that's another thing too, that photography's done.
Speaker E:It's like I grew up in Rochester, but I left for like, you know, my 20s and most of my 30s.
Speaker E:So I came back here and you know, it's been through photography that I've become connected with the community.
Speaker E:Like taking pictures at Bookeater or like taking pictures at all these different places.
Speaker E:At Submarine, I just did a zine like workshop with Submarine.
Speaker E:We're doing like a family night now.
Speaker E:And so we went to the school, we, you know, we made zines together.
Speaker E:The kids were there, the parents were there and I took pictures in the classrooms because I don't know if you've been there before, but it's amazing.
Speaker E:Like every classroom is just decked out and the light was so good.
Speaker E:And I just asked Katie, one of the owners, if I could take pictures.
Speaker E:She's like, of course.
Speaker E:So know, as I post those things on Instagram, I.
Speaker E:It's like I'm, I'm showing them that I see them and I see the beauty of the space that they've created and, and I just, I'm such a huge supporter of small local businesses and like what they do is so special and so to be able to just share that just is also brings me a lot of joy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And that was another thing that when I think about your work, you know, was not the, you know, typical parts of Rochester and I.
Speaker B:You could feel that sense of rediscovery.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, Rob Bell, one of our co curators, talks about it often when he moved away and came back home.
Speaker B:Part of his rediscovery of Rochester.
Speaker B:Whereas this discovery of Rochester in general was through using his camera and entering neighborhoods and taking photos of, you know, maybe the lesser known places like those small businesses or you know, you know, the shopping cart or you know, those things that we connect to in some way that maybe we, we walk by or drive by and maybe don't always pay attention to.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Do you feel like film photography has slowed you down a bit to kind of see things?
Speaker E:Yes, I, I think another huge part of it is noticing, like, with digital photography, which I also love, I could take a, you know, a million different pictures of something, and I didn't really have to think about my settings as much because I could just retake it so many different times with different settings to get exactly what I wanted.
Speaker E:So with the film photography, it's like you pause, you.
Speaker E:You know, you really get to know your camera and.
Speaker E:And you just.
Speaker E:You look at everything with, like, this, like, you know, like, you're always just kind of considering, you know, do I want to capture this?
Speaker E:And it's just the.
Speaker E:The, like, every week I probably shoot a couple rolls, and every time I go to Scott's and drop off a roll, it's like, I'm like, this is like a high, you know, and then I wait and I go back and I get it, and I'm just like, oh, my God, like, this is my life.
Speaker A:It's great.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because you take that time, consideration, and dedication in every shot.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:It's so special, right?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:It has that.
Speaker B:That.
Speaker B:That feeling of, like, knowing what the analog world feels like because you've experienced it firsthand.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, prior to, you know, all of these things that we have now and.
Speaker B:And going back and reconnecting to.
Speaker B:To that thing again where it's like, well, yeah, my phone died.
Speaker B:Yeah, that sucks, because I really like my phone.
Speaker B:But I also remember a time where no one can get in touch with me.
Speaker B:And it was based on, you know, you had to find your friends by, like, going to where you thought they would be.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker B:And that was how you found them.
Speaker B:And if you didn't find them, you didn't find them that day, and that was that.
Speaker B:And better luck next time, you know, so.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, thank you, Corinne.
Speaker A:I appreciate you spending time with us.
Speaker E:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker A:And we're gonna move on to our next artist.
Speaker A:Robert.
Speaker A:How you doing, Robert?
Speaker A:Hey.
Speaker D:How we're doing?
Speaker D:Pretty good.
Speaker D:How are you?
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:From Rochester.
Speaker D:Been here pretty much all my life.
Speaker D:Got into photography about six, seven years ago.
Speaker D:I've always been, you know, kind of in the art scheme growing up, kind of in more drawing, painting, stuff like that, but kind of just work my way into that, into that photography scene.
Speaker A:We always see a recurring theme of people jumping into photography from visual arts or drawing or painting or leaving it and coming back.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:So always, you know, I always wanted to start with my phone.
Speaker D:And then about six, seven years ago, I finally splurged I was like, you know what?
Speaker D:It's time.
Speaker D:Let me get a little.
Speaker A:That sounds like me and Q also.
Speaker D:Little DSLR with the phone.
Speaker A:And then we just branch out into other things.
Speaker A:We get curious, see what everybody else is doing when we, you know, meet them.
Speaker A:And I mean, so.
Speaker A:So what'd you.
Speaker A:What was your first camera?
Speaker D: It was a Nikon D: Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker D:And I had no idea what it.
Speaker D:I had no idea what it was.
Speaker A:Listen, nobody does.
Speaker A:We still go, you know, we find new things.
Speaker A:I remember.
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker A:We had a.
Speaker A:Me and Q have a Rico GR3.
Speaker A:And after having it for two years, I figured out that I can do multiple exposures on it, you know, So, I mean, it's just playing around, getting to know it.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So you got the camera, and then.
Speaker D:So it came with a little 18, 18 to 55 and a 70 to 300.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker D:No, I had no idea the difference.
Speaker D:I had, you know, starting at ground level.
Speaker A:So you're like, wow, this one's closer now.
Speaker A:This one's farther.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:So I.
Speaker D:I just immediately was drawn to that 7,300.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:And I think that really, like, set the foundation for.
Speaker D:For, like, my photography.
Speaker D: III with that: Speaker D:And I just.
Speaker D: Every time I'm grabbing that: Speaker B:Like you speak in Rob's love language.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I got a picture of ride with a huge.
Speaker A:I can't remember what focal length that was, but damn.
Speaker B:I think it was like a.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Telescope.
Speaker B:Literally, it was like a 80 to 900.
Speaker B:I'm just making a number up there.
Speaker A:We'll post it on the.
Speaker A:On the.
Speaker A:On our stories.
Speaker B:Huge.
Speaker A:I'll share it.
Speaker A:That's pretty huge.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So you got comfortable new lens.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:And so what did you start doing?
Speaker A:Like, what.
Speaker A:Did you notice a difference between jumping from mobile photography to now having.
Speaker A:I mean, because mobile photography is digital and it's.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So now you're having this, you know, this new device that actually is made for that.
Speaker A:So how was that feeling, the transition?
Speaker D:It was just.
Speaker D:Just an exploration.
Speaker D:I would take it, you know, everywhere I went.
Speaker D:You know, I used to hike a lot more than I do now, but I used to take it on hikes.
Speaker D:I started kind of like going, like, into the city, and, like, I was very comfortable with it.
Speaker D:I wouldn't take it in public that much.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:And then I think over time, I just kind of started like, growing that.
Speaker D:Be more comfortable.
Speaker D:I would take it on trips.
Speaker D:I would Take it.
Speaker D:And then all of a sudden, now here we are.
Speaker D:Lives in my hand at all times.
Speaker D:That's awesome.
Speaker A:So is there ever a day where you don't have it, like, in the car or whatever?
Speaker D:No, it's always in the car.
Speaker D:Even if I'm just going.
Speaker D:If I know I'm just going to work that day, it's still in the car.
Speaker D:You don't know.
Speaker D:After work, it could.
Speaker D:Light, could be.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker D:And you're out there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So what's your favorite thing to document, like, as you're going out?
Speaker D:It's honestly just the city just seeing every different angle of it.
Speaker D:I love finding new places, kind of stuff that I haven't seen anyone.
Speaker D:Anyone shoot from before.
Speaker D:And then I love going back to those places.
Speaker D:You know, give it, you know, two, three months, go back and you find something new in that same spot.
Speaker D:That's my favorite thing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:What I like, what I'm drawn to, is seeing things at different times a day, but also different seasons as well.
Speaker A:They, you know, sometimes, you know, give you a new perspective of something you didn't see before when you're there.
Speaker A:I think I was saying also earlier, like, you know, if I see something that looks great at night or neon, you know, fixture or whatever on a storefront, I'll, like, literally camp out.
Speaker A:I'm like, okay, I'm going to drive by around this time.
Speaker A:If it looks great, I'll take it then.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, no, that's good.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:I think what comes to mind there is I've been to, like, Webster park probably 100 times.
Speaker D:I've taken pictures.
Speaker D:I've probably taken 6,000 pictures there in every different season.
Speaker D:And I was just there the other day and I got, like, good sunset pictures.
Speaker D:I was there in the winter.
Speaker D:The whole thing was covered in ice.
Speaker D:I got every different season.
Speaker D:So you just kind of go through the motions, and in Rochester, you can.
Speaker A:Get that in one week.
Speaker D:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker B:One afternoon.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, and I think that's the other thing.
Speaker C:Like what you're describing when you mentioned, like, you're going through the motions, but it's kind of the opposite.
Speaker C:Like, the direct opposite of that is you're purely living at that second and trying to really feel what it's like to be somewhere.
Speaker C:Yeah, but I think that's the.
Speaker C:The joy of actually going somewhere and being present and engaging with a place versus just living there and just existing.
Speaker C:You're going out and really engaging with it and feeling what an area looks like, what's been what's been the thing that surprised you most?
Speaker C:Like, what's a place that really grabbed you that you weren't expecting, that you wanted to go back to over and over again?
Speaker D:Honestly, it's.
Speaker D:It's very weird.
Speaker D:But Fairport, I don't know Fairport, I just.
Speaker D:I can walk around there for a while, and you get really good light.
Speaker D:You get really good.
Speaker D:It's like a small, little town, but it's got that little village and something.
Speaker C:About walkability where you can walk between so many different things.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker C:Just had on Fairport food and drink on food about town.
Speaker C:And they were talking about how, like, there's people, there's somebody else running a golf cart where, you know, on a busy night, and they're just doing it, and it's kind of in conjunction with things, but they're doing it because people want to just get around and walk and do that, like, think about, like, just people doing stuff just because, hey, we want to build this community.
Speaker C:And yeah, it is a little isolated, and it feels like a separate part of town.
Speaker C:But that's kind of the thing, isn't it?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:It's got that fun, like, small village appeal that hasn't been, you know, overly commercialized.
Speaker B:And, you know, obviously there's rules that they have in place to make sure signage doesn't look a certain way.
Speaker B:So you kind of feels like you're going into a time capsule when you.
Speaker B:When you pop into the.
Speaker B:To the village there for sure.
Speaker B:One of the things that I've.
Speaker B:I love about your.
Speaker B:Your work is some of the, like, layers that you have in your.
Speaker B:Your photos, and you obviously see that a lot through your architectural work.
Speaker B:A lot of the buildings downtown are just spaces in.
Speaker B:In general, and that's probably because of the.
Speaker B:You're trying to find these unique angles.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:What's the.
Speaker B:How do you feel when you get those shots with all of those, like, funky?
Speaker D:It's honestly, it's rewarding just being able because, you know, we've all walked those streets so many times, and we know all the angles.
Speaker D:So when you find a new one, you're like, all right, like.
Speaker A:Like, there it is.
Speaker D:I like that.
Speaker D:And honestly, a lot of that goes into using, like, the.
Speaker D:The 70 to 300.
Speaker D:Like, I'll just max it out of 300.
Speaker D:And you see, like, six buildings layered behind each other.
Speaker D:There's one that I took with the.
Speaker D:I can't remember which street it's on, but it's got the five star building in the background.
Speaker D:It's got one before that, one before that.
Speaker D:It's kind of near Javas under that little, like, arch.
Speaker D:And it's got.
Speaker D:It's got like six or seven layers.
Speaker D:And I was like, I've walked the street so many times.
Speaker D:I never knew that.
Speaker D:And now I do.
Speaker E:So.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's.
Speaker B:That's the fun part about downtown.
Speaker B:Sometimes when you get into the tops of those buildings and you zoom in, or even if you don't zoom in and you, you know, you take the photo and then you crop in, you're like, wow, I never noticed this or this.
Speaker B:And, you know, there's so many fun angles down there.
Speaker B:And one thing I love about some of your framing too, is, you know, you'll include signage in the framing, which I enjoy.
Speaker B:And then there's like the lights, the street lights, whatever it is.
Speaker B:Like, those are just those fun elements of like, it's not just this.
Speaker B:It's kind of the space around it.
Speaker B:And you kind of see that over and over in the work.
Speaker B:Even if it's just a.
Speaker B:A single building, you know, you'll see all of the fun elements around there.
Speaker D:Absolutely.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:I've worked a lot at like, editing, cropping, just kind of figuring out.
Speaker D:I feel like I have a very distinct style and just kind of figuring out what that wants, what that is.
Speaker D:And over time I've.
Speaker D:I've kind of dialed it in to where it is, but it always changes.
Speaker D:Trying to shoot new stuff, trying to kind of branch out a little bit.
Speaker D:But I think architecture is definitely a huge, yeah, huge part of my.
Speaker A:That's what drew me into your work as well, because it kind of like mirrors a little bit of what I do.
Speaker A:And I love showing layers.
Speaker A:I love showing, you know, the streets of Rochester and the buildings are a great backdrop with a good sky with a good time of day.
Speaker A:And you showcase that well.
Speaker A:And like I said, that's what Drew Q and I to be able to be like, wow, this guy is really just doing some good stuff.
Speaker A:Some good stuff down there.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Is there, is there besides like Fairport in the city?
Speaker A:You know, you said that you frequent around the job.
Speaker A:Is there a frequent.
Speaker A:You know, I know I think I've seen you at Javas like that one time.
Speaker A:But is there a frequent area that you always, you know, tend to document the most in downtown?
Speaker D:I feel like my, my go to thing is I will.
Speaker D:I have like three spots.
Speaker D:I'll go.
Speaker D:Either I'll go park by fuego or I'll go park kind of in like across some Merc on Maine.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker D:Or like down by Javas.
Speaker D:I'll start there and just kind of in that, that, that circle and I just kind of walk through there and really I used to never be like comfortable walking around with my camera and all that.
Speaker D:And then I think this past year I really got really got into it and now I find myself.
Speaker D:It'll be like midnight.
Speaker D:I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna go take some pictures.
Speaker B:Yeah, we were talking, I forgot who I was talking to him recently about, like, when you have a camera, you know, people notice you.
Speaker B:They're like, oh, what's that guy doing?
Speaker B:Why does he have a camera?
Speaker B:And the bigger the camera or the bigger the lens, the more people are like, what's he doing?
Speaker B:What's going on?
Speaker B:What's he.
Speaker B:Don't take a photo of me.
Speaker B:And so, you know, obviously have, I have that type of camera, but I also have the street style camera, the small pocket camera where people often think, like, he's not doing anything.
Speaker B:Like, it's a point and shoot.
Speaker B:It's not doing much.
Speaker B:But the point and shoot has, you know, some really cool elements to it.
Speaker B:And those photos are just as good as, you know, but it is that approachability sometimes where someone's like, what's this, this person doing with the camera?
Speaker B:Like, what are they doing?
Speaker B:What are they, what do they need?
Speaker B:Or who do they work for?
Speaker B:And you know, those, those elements.
Speaker B:But yeah, it's nice to be out with that, that larger lens.
Speaker B:And you know, there have been times where I'm out and I'm like, man, I really wish I can get that shot right there.
Speaker B:But it's just me and a fixed lens and it is what it is.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And sometimes a fixed lens for me, like, challenges me to like, move more.
Speaker B:So it's like, oh, I have to get closer or I have to move back a little bit or I have to adjust me and become uncomfortable in a situation because I need to get in it to really, to really document it.
Speaker D:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:I bought recently.
Speaker D:I bought like six, seven months ago.
Speaker D:I got a little, just a little 51.8.
Speaker D:Just try something new.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker D:And I think that's really helped me out.
Speaker D:Just kind of.
Speaker A:It's got a little pancake lens joint.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker D:Just, you know, having that fixed, that fixed length, just kind of.
Speaker D:You got to move around a little bit.
Speaker D:You gotta, you know, you're not gonna be able to zoom in and out, get every shot you want that.
Speaker D:So just being able to move around and Experience it a little differently.
Speaker B:There's, there's two things and, and it's interesting that we went from Corinne to you.
Speaker B:There's two things that often slows me down.
Speaker B:Like if I'm overthinking, it's grabbing a film camera because I have to stop and think about it and be more intentional, where it's like, oh, I have digital out to take 40 shots of this and edit it, which I hate editing, but, like, that's the thing.
Speaker B:Or I'll grab the fixed lens and say, you have to move.
Speaker B:You have to do this thing today to challenge yourself instead of, you know, being able to zoom in, out and just kind of go with it.
Speaker B:And that's what I appreciate about both of your, your styles.
Speaker B:Just that you know what you're bringing and you know how you're documenting parts of the city or just parts of even the county.
Speaker D:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:Well, Robert, I appreciate you giving us the time to talk.
Speaker D:Yeah, thank you.
Speaker A:We're going to go to our last artist for our May reception.
Speaker B:Not a photographer.
Speaker A:Not a photographer.
Speaker A:Aaron, how you doing?
Speaker F:Good, how are you?
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:Tell us a little bit about your medium and what you do.
Speaker F:So I am an artist and also a graffiti writer.
Speaker F:The mediums I work with are primarily spray paint and acrylic.
Speaker F:And pretty recently I've been doing a lot more wood collage, assemblage type pieces.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Amazing.
Speaker A:Larger than life street stuff.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:No, I, I, I was drawn to your work that you submitted to Sketchy for, you know, Eric Lehman's oh my God exhibit down at the RIT City space.
Speaker A:And that was an amazing, amazing display.
Speaker A:And then also what you do at the other spot over on east, what.
Speaker B:They were doing the last year.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:Yeah, there it is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, so how did you get into what you do right now?
Speaker F:Skateboarding.
Speaker F:Skateboarding at a young age introduced me to my whole world.
Speaker F:You can't pick up a skateboard magazine without seeing art graphics for sure.
Speaker F:Graffiti, street, cityscape.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:So I pretty much gotta thank skateboarding for that.
Speaker B:When did you start to spray?
Speaker F:Probably 14.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:Been doing it almost 16 years now.
Speaker F:More than half my life.
Speaker B:That's awesome.
Speaker A:Born and raised in Russia.
Speaker F:Yep.
Speaker A:From here.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker A:So is there the transition?
Speaker A:Well, is there really sort of a transition to, like, your graffiti and artwork, to your woodworking skills and whatnot and what you do or.
Speaker F:A little bit.
Speaker F:I was definitely an artist at a young age, but once I found graffiti, I just went, went with it.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker F:Full speed.
Speaker F:So I was just kind of ignoring all their other aspects of art and just focusing on that letters, figuring out how to use spray paint, where to go spray paint, meeting people who also do what I do, and then realizing that my graffiti excelled because of my artistic ability.
Speaker F:So I wanted to challenge myself more and try painting using a brush instead.
Speaker F:And, okay, I'm not good at painting people.
Speaker F:Let's practice painting people, you know, instead of letters.
Speaker F:So.
Speaker F:And then I think once I eventually fell into the trades and using and acquiring tools again through skateboarding as well, building ramps and stuff with friends and did more woodworking type stuff.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think it was your.
Speaker B:Your graffiti work that I saw originally.
Speaker B:Like, I would see your.
Speaker B:Your pieces around town, or I would see, you know, someone repost, you know, something that you had done.
Speaker B:I was like, wow.
Speaker B:Like, I just loved your.
Speaker B:Your style.
Speaker B:And then you started to.
Speaker B:I think around that time, you started to do some more of, like, the portrait pieces, like, like, with found objects.
Speaker B:So using the skateboard, which.
Speaker B:I love your skateboard.
Speaker B:Your skateboard portraits, like, those are just like, using a skateboard as a canvas is, like, really wild to me.
Speaker B:But, like, using it the way you're not screen printing, you're not, you know, doing, you know, all of those other elements, you're, like, actually painting on the board and kind of bringing this world to life.
Speaker B:And then when you switched over to the collage woodworking pieces, it was just like that this was like, whoa.
Speaker B:And then you were bringing.
Speaker B:Still bringing those elements of spray into it and painting and, like, having the drips and, like, it's just, you know, I have two of the pieces at home, and they're just like, you know, these pieces that it's interesting how they look on the front and then, like, how you're hanging those pieces on the back.
Speaker F:Definitely changing.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's.
Speaker B:It's definitely like, this raw, like, really cool element.
Speaker B:Can you tell us a little bit about, like, that woodworking and, you know, how you.
Speaker B:How you see it?
Speaker B:And it seems like you're spending a little bit more time with that as well.
Speaker A:And just to add real quick, it's so hard for us to describe.
Speaker A:Yeah, like, what he.
Speaker F:Like, it's hard for me, too.
Speaker A:Over a podcast.
Speaker A:It's so hard to describe what Aaron does.
Speaker A:Just seeing it in person is just.
Speaker A:Just awe because of what he can do.
Speaker A:I would kind of say it's a chopped and screwed version of what the three elements that he's bringing together.
Speaker C:Hey, Richard, where can people go see this work on an upcoming First Friday.
Speaker A:Behind the Glass Gallery, my friend.
Speaker C:Six to eight on the first Friday in May, right?
Speaker A:Yes, definitely.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's wild because when you see it and when you see it online, it looks like it's cool, right?
Speaker B:But then when you see it in person and you see the scale of it or you see how the pieces are coming together, you're just like, wait, I don't understand.
Speaker B:I think the one that always comes to mind is you did the Rochester symbol.
Speaker B:And I was just like, oh, that's really a cool piece.
Speaker B:Like, how big is it?
Speaker B:And then I saw it in person, I was like, whoa, this is a lot bigger.
Speaker B:And then it had, like, these funky elements with the.
Speaker B: , the bank checks from, like,: Speaker B:It was like, just funky.
Speaker F:So what was the question again?
Speaker B:We went on this.
Speaker B:We went off.
Speaker B:We went on, like, trying to explain your.
Speaker F:Your work.
Speaker F:I think it's just from being around again, going with being in your surroundings, being in different places, looking at your city through a different type of lens in a different way.
Speaker F:I've had a lot of odd jobs.
Speaker F:It's brought me all over the city.
Speaker F:I think it's.
Speaker F:I got to blame it being a hoarder.
Speaker F:Coming from skateboarding.
Speaker F:You're collecting your skateboard decks.
Speaker F:You're collecting shoes, parts, wheels.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:So I just kind of kept collecting things as I was doing different jobs.
Speaker F:And, okay, I can paint on this, or I'll put it in a pile.
Speaker F:And I don't know what I'm going to do with it right now, but eventually I'll find something.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I think I remember when I was visiting your exhibit, I was like, yo, how did you get this street sign?
Speaker A:Oh, I saw it just laying in.
Speaker F:There, walking around, you know, experienced things, you know, through whether I was out skateboarding or checking out graffiti and finding things that weren't bolted down.
Speaker C:That's a good start.
Speaker A:Has there ever been one that was.
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:He said this in the past.
Speaker B:It's always found objects, right?
Speaker A:Nothing illegal.
Speaker C:So I'm kind of wondering.
Speaker C:You talked about, you know, you kind of going between different mediums based on what grabs you at the time or some other thing inspires you.
Speaker C:What has that, you know, artistic exploration, you know, when you go to the next thing, do you grab from the past and what you did there to inspire what's coming up next?
Speaker C:And it seems like it's almost stacking on top of each other as you evolve.
Speaker C:Do you think about that?
Speaker C:Is it just natural?
Speaker C:How does that.
Speaker C:How does that hit you in your head.
Speaker F:Definitely think about it is.
Speaker F:And it is also natural doing the more like collage, assemblage, woodworking pieces.
Speaker F:It's a little different of like a mindset from doing a painting.
Speaker F:It's a little.
Speaker F:Sometimes less challenging.
Speaker F:Different tools, a whole different start and kind of thought process.
Speaker F:Sometimes it's.
Speaker F:I can just like, kind of shut my brain off and go with the abstract flow of things, or it's like a painting is somewhat more structured in a sense.
Speaker F:There's also different layering processes, you know, that I go about.
Speaker F:So it does.
Speaker F:I definitely do grab from other and previous past works to create the new ones as well.
Speaker C:Yeah, there's something.
Speaker C:There's something special about that, like not.
Speaker C:Not forgetting, like, hey, you might not be the most active skateboarder anymore if.
Speaker C:If you are not.
Speaker C:But it doesn't mean it can't inspire the things that are coming later.
Speaker C:It's not forgetting.
Speaker C:It's embracing who.
Speaker C:How you've been built.
Speaker F:Definitely.
Speaker C:Because if you don't, you're kind of missing those opportunities too.
Speaker B:Yeah, I think that's the.
Speaker B:When you think about the three folks that are featured this month, the one common thread is just the ability to layer.
Speaker B:Like, there's all these layers on top of, you know, what you do.
Speaker B:And it's like people may see something at the surface, but when you get a little closer to it, you notice something that maybe you didn't notice before.
Speaker B:And, you know, I think again, that flower city symbol is one that I, you know, I saw it online, and then when I was next to it, I could see those different elements and like, wow, this is a ruler and this is another ruler.
Speaker B:But this is like just a random, you know, piece of a check.
Speaker B:And this is, you know, a part of, you know, something from a boiler.
Speaker B:And it's like just these funky elements.
Speaker B:And I know as a.
Speaker B:As a writer, some people often sketch ahead of time, so they'll sketch the piece that they're going to do and then go out and.
Speaker B:And do the piece.
Speaker B:Do you find your.
Speaker B:Do you sketch or, like, kind of plan out those assemblages or is it kind of on a whim?
Speaker F:Yeah, I do.
Speaker F:There's a little bit of planning.
Speaker F:No sketching or drawing.
Speaker F:Sometimes I work from a template or a pattern.
Speaker F:So, like, the flower was easy.
Speaker F:I cut out a piece of wood off the flower.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:And just kind of like, had the scrap wood materials.
Speaker F:Oh, this will fit.
Speaker F:This will fit.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker F:Glue it, nail it.
Speaker F:Oh, this will look cool on top.
Speaker F:Of it, under it, over it.
Speaker F:So, yeah, there's a little bit of planning definitely involved, for sure.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's a.
Speaker B:There's a couple of pieces that you have that are, like, more of this self portrait style.
Speaker B:And the one that I think about often is the no trespassing piece.
Speaker B:And, like, yeah, that.
Speaker B:I mean, first of all, it's huge, and it's heavy, and it's still, like, very raw.
Speaker B:I remember we walked up to it, and it was a piece of the concrete, and it was like a nail out of it.
Speaker B:And he was like, that's the way I found it.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it is what it is.
Speaker B:Like, is there a reason why you stay so true to the element?
Speaker B:Like, I mean, there's a nail or there's, like, pieces of concrete, and they're kind of tattered.
Speaker B:What's, like, what's that process for you?
Speaker F:It's just finding those materials.
Speaker F:And, you know, a lot of these materials and things that I find.
Speaker F:I don't know why.
Speaker F:I just find value in them.
Speaker F:They've lived a whole life before I've found it, and then it's just gonna be discarded or thrown in a dumpster somewhere, and somebody forgets about it.
Speaker F:It's like, oh, there's a lot of life left in these things, so I could try to use it.
Speaker F:And also, again, seeing things from a different way, like, oh, this crumbling, broken concrete with nails sticking out of it.
Speaker F:Yeah, I'd love to use that.
Speaker F:Of course I would.
Speaker F:I think it's.
Speaker F:I think this is cool.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I remember the first time I saw it, I was like, here's a nail.
Speaker B:And you're like, yeah, I love it.
Speaker B:And I was like, I love it too.
Speaker B:It's kind of.
Speaker B:It's interesting.
Speaker A:You have a favorite piece that you worked on.
Speaker F:I think some of the self portrait stuff, I never.
Speaker F:A lot of artists, painters will do a self portrait.
Speaker F:Right.
Speaker F:It's something you kind of practice and perfect and do it.
Speaker F:It's like something you can do as a painter.
Speaker F:And I hadn't done one in a long time, so I thought this comp studios was a good thing for me to.
Speaker F:To try, you know?
Speaker F:And then, you know, people are coming and seeing the show and meeting me, the artist, and seeing a picture of.
Speaker F:So it's kind of giving an excuse to do one.
Speaker F:So I'm like, how do I want to represent myself?
Speaker F:How do I want to paint myself?
Speaker F:So I tried that, and it was fun.
Speaker F:Definitely challenging.
Speaker F:I don't like staring at a picture of myself for Hours and hours.
Speaker F:Then you find out trying to match your skin tone and yeah, it's like, oh, I'm more pink than anything.
Speaker F:So that was a little weird, but definitely fun.
Speaker F:I think that.
Speaker F:Yeah, more so the.
Speaker F:I guess they're not so much my favorite, but favorite in process in doing.
Speaker A:How was your experience working in Comp Studio?
Speaker A:I mean, also to, you know, tie in the unique Fair early intro.
Speaker A:Unique was also a part of Comp Sudo with, you know, with you as well as Ray Wiggins, who was also last month artist.
Speaker A:You know, shout out to Ray.
Speaker A:So how was it working with those other artists?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker F:Hannah Bell Comp Studios was an awesome, amazing experience.
Speaker F:I would do it over and over again.
Speaker F:It was really great to be a resident artist and having a space provided for you.
Speaker F:I couldn't use spray paint or cut wood, but that's okay.
Speaker F:So I've kind of focused on doing the paintings and then, like, I would, you know, kind of prep these pieces somewhere else and finish them in the studio.
Speaker F:And it was amazing because the art show was happening whether I was ready or not.
Speaker F:It happened once a month, every first Friday.
Speaker F:So I better have something new to show because that's.
Speaker F:It's going on.
Speaker B:That was one of my favorite stops.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:At some point during first Friday, like, I had to pop in to kind of see what everyone was working on.
Speaker B:Especially if you were doing, like a tease of something you were working on and you showed on Social.
Speaker B:And I'm like, yeah, I gotta go check out, like, this new piece and kind of see how it's coming.
Speaker B:Coming to life.
Speaker B:So it was always interesting to see those.
Speaker B:Those things come and.
Speaker B:But it also felt like.
Speaker B:And correct me if I'm wrong, but it felt like you guys kind of fed off of each other in ways and being like, okay, I'm going to challenge myself.
Speaker B:And I know one of the times we were in there, Ray was talking about how they were going to start framing some of their work.
Speaker B:And, you know, obviously, you know how to, you know, cut wood and nail and, like, do all those things.
Speaker B:And it was interesting to kind of see that growth in their work as well.
Speaker F:Yeah, it's definitely an experience being surrounded.
Speaker F:You know, I'm not used to.
Speaker F:I'm used to being in a garage or a basement or a spare bedroom somewhere outside, working alone, painting under a bridge, painting in the subway.
Speaker F:So it's cool to, you know, have that interaction and be influenced and being right there next to the other artists.
Speaker F:It was definitely awesome.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:So you Know, as we.
Speaker C:As we prep to go to our, you know, telling people about where, you know, what art you're bringing to the.
Speaker C:To the gallery, I just kind of want to end off with you.
Speaker C:You mentioned that doing the self portrait was kind of a, you know, almost an important part of the process.
Speaker C:How do you see yourself today?
Speaker C:Like, because you did that and seems like you really think about that process a lot, how do you see yourself today in a way that you didn't before, having gone through this artistic journey?
Speaker F:How do I see myself?
Speaker F:Well, that's pretty tough.
Speaker C:Yeah, I know.
Speaker C:It was a big question.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Less pink or more pink?
Speaker F:Yeah, depends.
Speaker F:I don't know.
Speaker F:I just.
Speaker F:I want to see myself as not being, like, stagnant.
Speaker F:I want to keep challenging myself.
Speaker F:And again, looking at things in a different way.
Speaker F:Oh, these materials, use them this way, use them that way.
Speaker F:Just stay challenged.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:Challenge myself.
Speaker F:Evolving forever Evolving.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I think it's the thing I can.
Speaker C:I value the most now is seeing that you can't stay the same forever, that you have to keep trying.
Speaker C:You have to go in, you know, go in the right way.
Speaker C:Going with that mentality of, hey, I'm going to change.
Speaker C:I'm going to do something different, and it's okay if it doesn't quite work right, but you have to keep trying something.
Speaker F:Exactly.
Speaker C:So very cool.
Speaker C:So with that being said, I think we're going to go to break.
Speaker C:We'll be right back.
Speaker C:To learn about what everybody's bringing to behind the glass on first Friday in May.
Speaker C:What day is it, Richard?
Speaker A:It is May 2nd.
Speaker C:Second, May 2nd, 6 to 8 at the Mercantile in Maine.
Speaker C:And we'll be right back.
Speaker A:All right, we are back real quick.
Speaker A:We're gonna go around the horn.
Speaker A:Just the axi chart us what they're gonna bring and what they hope to instill on the people that come in to view their work this May.
Speaker A:Corinne, what do you bring?
Speaker E:The word that comes to mind is bittersweet.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker E:Just because I'm capturing just day to day life, there's a lot of heaviness right now.
Speaker E:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker E:And.
Speaker E:But there's also a lot of sweetness.
Speaker E:And as I, you know, drive around the city or just, you know, I'm in my home with my family, I feel like what I'm capturing, there's like, a melancholy to it.
Speaker E:There's definitely, like that feeling of just sadness right now that.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker E:I think a lot of people feel.
Speaker E:But then also there are these, like, really sweet, beautiful moments.
Speaker E:And so, yeah, the pieces I put together kind of have that balance between the light and the dark.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker E:And where can people find you on Instagram?
Speaker E:Corinne Bowen creates.
Speaker E:And my website is corinnemakesart.com perfect.
Speaker B:1R2Ns.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker E:You're never gonna forget.
Speaker C:Never.
Speaker A:1R2N.
Speaker A:All right, thank you, Corrine.
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker D:Robert, I think that word that comes to mind for me is memories.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Bring some pieces that, you know, I've taken that have been monumental steps for me.
Speaker D:Things that mid have made me very proud.
Speaker D:I think other people will love too.
Speaker D:So a couple pieces from trips and a couple pieces from Rochester.
Speaker D:So sweet.
Speaker D:Some memories that I'm proud of.
Speaker B:Awesome.
Speaker A:And where can people find you?
Speaker D:Instagram, Robert Wforrest.
Speaker D:Two Rs in the end.
Speaker A:Two Rs.
Speaker B:One W.
Speaker B:All right, cool.
Speaker A:And last we have Aaron.
Speaker F:I think the word that comes to mind is recycled.
Speaker F:Ah.
Speaker F:So definitely staying with the reclaimed and assemblage woodcut pieces.
Speaker F:Bringing some smaller things to the wall.
Speaker F:This time a little lighter.
Speaker F:Not as heavy to be hungry.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:But still intricate and still a lot going on with color and old found materials.
Speaker A:Perfect.
Speaker F:Where can people find you on the app?
Speaker F:We all go on, we all use, we all look at it.
Speaker F:I don't get paid to say it, so I'm not going to say it, but we know what it is.
Speaker A:Literally jumped back on last night.
Speaker F:No website, that's all I use is just that app we all stare at.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:So Chris, why don't you close us out, my friend.
Speaker C:Well, thanks everybody for coming over to the studio.
Speaker C:Really appreciate it.
Speaker C:It's always a great time.
Speaker C:Looking forward to seeing Everybody out on May 26 to 8 at the Mercantile on Maine.
Speaker C:If you want to learn about other shows on the lunch at our podcast network, you can go to lunchadore.org mentioned a couple during the show.
Speaker C:So nights and weekends from the team from the sound talking about music mentioned, you know, other shows that are going on.
Speaker C:So check out those.
Speaker C:Check out behind the studio door.
Speaker C:We're doing some great work over there talking about artist process, so hope you join that.
Speaker C:Go to launcher.org and subscribe to some of the new shows.
Speaker C:We also have common thread from Rory Van Grohl, Shout Out, Ugly Duck and Greg Benoit talking about their experience in hardcore music and how it's made them better adults.
Speaker C:Really interesting stuff from somebody who is one of the more genial, nice people in the world and then you hear about his experience doing scream music.
Speaker C:Just one of the coolest things you'll ever hear about.
Speaker C:So really enjoying that so far.
Speaker C:Appreciate everybody joining in and we'll see you out on first Friday.
Speaker C:This has been a presentation of the Lunchadore Podcast Network.
Speaker C:This show really was a unique affair.
