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About Yumi: YUMI SAKUGAWA is an Ignatz Awards nominated comic book artist and the author of I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU and YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE. Her comics have also appeared in The Believer, Bitch, the Best American Non­Required Reading 2014, The Rumpus, Folio, Fjords Review, and other publications. She has also exhibited multimedia installations at the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building. A graduate from the fine art program of University of California, Los Angeles, she lives in Los Angeles.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Drawing, writing, meditation, performance art, and engagement in multiple creative disciplines as an artistic practice and career.
• Being an extroverted introvert or an "ambivert".
• Growing up as an Asian American student in both American and Japanese academic systems.
• Stream of consciousness and dream logic.
• Using meditation to supplement her mental health.
• How her meditation surfaces in her work visually.
• Rediscovering "fun" in the creative process.
• Using humor as a vehicle to explore and express darker subject matter.
• The importance of being a female Asian American artist under the projective narratives of both American and Asian patriarchy.
• The fetishization of Asian American artists and women.
• Her part in helping other Asian American woman artists achieve visibility.
• Mental health, personal boundaries, and keeping a balance in her personal relationships and art practice.
• Giving herself permission to take the time needed to slow down in order to be creative.

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