The Adventures of Self Podcast

Changing Perspectives – with Christopher Swift

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This week's adventure is taken in the company of artist, Christopher Swift who, after a brief chat about how podcasts – like art – allow the ability to reach out and touch people all over the world, settle into the main topic; changing perspectives by literally moving across the globe.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • There’s a temptation, an ease, an inertia to just going through the motions, because there’s a presumed safety in the 9-5, 5 days a week routine. But that can be changed at any moment for all sort of reasons.
  • I became a father at the age of 40 and the realities between the ideas of becoming a father, the ideas of being a subject of a father and living as a son growing up from a son to a young adult and then a father and the roles we take on in the structures of Western society. And then you get to the actual, white-knuckle experience of becoming a father were totally different.
  • A knowledge base is gained through trial and error, through practice. We bring theories and concepts – often represented by physical objects – into the real world and grapple with those. There’s something that can only happen through the adventure/life trial. No one is rewarded without getting involved.
  • I now have a responsibility to provide safety and stability for my child, which were not necessarily there for me as a child. So, I’ve had to put my art and creativity to the side in order to do that.
  • It’s unfortunate that the purchase or artwork adds to the value of the artwork itself. However, someone else has validated the sense of value that the artist had in it in the first place and sometimes more so. But until it’s sold it’s a failure.

    • BEST MOMENTS

    ‘There are no guarantees, life is an adventure if you choose for it to be.’

    ‘Humans thrive somewhere in the middle of the comfort that routine brings and the dangers that come from the opposite of that.’

    ‘When the child arrives, a father is born.’

    ‘Our failures and setbacks have informed us when we get back up and try it again.’

    ‘Life has its own wisdom and time has its own lessons to impart to us. If you knew how hard certain things were to do, you’d never have started them.

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    ABOUT THE GUEST

    Christopher Swift is an Artist who’s temporarily hung up his tools of trade when he became a father 9 and 7 years ago. It’s said that Art imitates life, and in this view Chris has never stopped being an artist. His foundational interests are Environmental, but from the perspective of living on the dramatic tip of Africa he admits one can’t tackle Environmental issues without understanding the deeper influences of history, politics and economy (money, materials and labour). Closer to home, becoming a father, ‘forcing’ his hand toward the security of earning outside of art interweaves his conversation with Taylor Galliant teasing understanding through story, experience and contemplation.

    www.chrisswift.co.za

    ABOUT THE HOST

    Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.

    He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.

    Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.

    “The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”

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