Tending Creativity

021 ✿ Micro-Memoirs -Being a Writer & Installation Artist ft. India K (@heartbread)

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Episode 021 ✿ Micro-Memoirs - Being a Writer & Installation Artist ft. India K (@heartbread)

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For this episode I talked with artist and writer India K, (@heartbread on instagram) about her "micro-memoirs". India creates installation art based on her writing on the themes of self-worth, vulnerability, and memory. She also has an online shop with items featuring her writing, in addition to having a day job. I got to speak to her all about how she began creating the work she does today and about her creative practice!

Topics discussed:

  • India introduces herself
  • India’s experience with creativity growing up
  • Being in a family of musicians
  • Playing a classical instrument
  • Getting a disposable camera and falling in love with photography
  • Going to college for photography and art
  • Being open to different mediums
  • Having a day job as an artist
  • Taking breaks from your art
  • Romanticization of being an artist
  • Not liking everything you make as an artist
  • Imitating as an artist starting out
  • Francesca Woodman
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect as an artist
  • Pivoting from photography to the installation art India makes now
  • Incorporating writing into photography
  • Conceptual artist Robert Montgomery
  • Installing her work in public spaces around her hometown
  • How her work has evolved
  • Graffiti
  • The relationship between India’s work and the spaces it occupies
  • The physicality of her installations
  • How India approaches writing and her creative process
  • The materials India uses
  • Having to take a piece apart
  • How India started selling merchandise in 2016
  • No Fun Press
  • What her first T-shirts were like
  • What it’s been like to run an online shop
  • Deciding what to turn into merchandise
  • Asking for audience feedback
  • India’s experience having a day job, creating art, and running her shop
  • Being very busy, giving herself deadlines, and getting things done in the moment
  • Being overwhelmed and dealing with that
  • List-making, being organized, and writing things down
  • How India has gotten into the field of her day job
  • Having a day job that allows her to be creative in a different way than her art practice
  • What India does for fun-billiards, hiking, and being outdoors

    • India's Website: http://www.india-k.com/

    India's Shop: https://india-k.myshopify.com/

    India's Instagram

    India's TikTok


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