Sam Falls is contemporary American artist whose boundary-defying work applies artistic processes to natural phenomena. The resulting paintings, prints, sculptures, and videos, often insert organic structures into art and man-made objects into nature. "We change the work by being present, and the work changes us by being present,” the artist has said. “We are breaking down and being built up, just like every moment." Falls works intimately with the fundamentals of nature and the transience of life that art best addresses.

He and I discussed the intimacy of nature, the best part of making art, the ambiguous space between the inside and outside worlds, what artists he looks to for solace (we love the same ones!), his rain works, place, extended time, and the hand of nature, the challenges of choosing, anxiety, the parental bond, listening to music on repeat, and what helps with the darkness.

References:

Julia Kristeva - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julia-Kristeva

Collier Schorr - https://www.303gallery.com/artists/collier-schorr

Wolfgang Tillmans - https://tillmans.co.uk

Bruce Nauman - https://www.moma.org/artists/4243 (referenced his work that was digging a hole by his ranch “Setting a Good Corner”)

Gillian Welch “Back in Time” https://music.apple.com/us/album/wayside-back-in-time/79759147?i=79759085

Salem “Capulets” https://music.apple.com/us/album/capulets/1535710389?i=1535710390

Salem “Not Much of a Life” https://music.apple.com/us/album/not-much-of-a-life/1535710389?i=1535710400

Stevie Nicks Wild Heart backstage https://youtu.be/ikMahqHWQXY

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