How can we make traces of suffering into visual poetry? How do we map emotional data?

Tai and Stan talk about the different ways we can make our art practice meaningful to our lives, and the lives of others. They discuss how Stan has managed to include travel, meeting people, tattooing and even beekeeping as integral parts of her practice. She explains her deeply thoughtful process of ‘data mapping’ and how it relates to her tattooing practice via shared modes of intimacy, trust, intensity and visual economy or minimalist language. We discuss the long-practiced traditions of making and wearing decorative motifs on the body and the utopian idea of exchanging honey and art and ideas in place of money.

Links, more episodes, and information about A World of One’s Own, at taisnaith.com/podcast

Audio production: Bec Fary

Theme music: ‘End of the Day’ by Phia www.listentophia.com