That's Passion

@ofuskie
ofuskie.com
linktr.ee/ofuskie

Upcoming shows!
May 28 - Native Treasures Show in Santa Fe
July 1 - Farrell Fischoff Gallery in Santa Fe
End of August - Indian Art Market
Secret upcoming shows in December 2022 and January 2023

The scene:
We are in the Alexander Contemporary studio in downtown Santa Fe where Ofuskie operates - as of 3 days ago.  This is his dream studio and it has all just fallen into place perfectly. He is expertly situated downtown near the Santa Fe Plaza. When I walked in, he was on the phone sourcing furniture for this new studio gallery. He is curating this environment and his life in the shape of his dreams. Join us in the new studio for a lively conversation on coming up and learning how to promote yourself in the art world.

Highlights:
+ From the Muscogee Creek Tribe
+ Began canvas painting at the Institute of American Indian Arts
+ Origin: Tulsa Oklahoma
+ $500 buys a lot of 30 packs of beer (when you’re living in a dorm)
+ Don’t ask him for a tattoo - he’s retired :)
+ Mentored by artist Tony Abeyta  tonyabeyta.com  @alpha_beta_tone
+ Massive upcoming shows - top secret - follow Ofuskie to know where to be
+ Galleries treating artists fairly, carefully signing agreements
+ Doing business with galleries outside of New Mexico and Oklahoma
+ Helping other artists keep more of their $
+ Typical artist/gallery split is 50/50
+ Alexander Contemporary split will be 60/40
+ Reinvesting profits back into the artist, big show promotion
+ Curation is an art form in and of itself
+ “We all are worthy to our own slice of pie”
+ Being a native artist, living where you can get the most legs up
+ Being part of an artist community that won’t let you fail
+ Artists rising together - helping each other up
+ Being raised by 5 sisters
+ When people tell you you will succeed, you do
+ The 8 billion/4 million/3 thousand/3 hundred/1 hand Rule
+ Life opportunities are everywhere if you stay open to them
+ Seeing things as they are - not good or bad
+ Not bringing the past or future into the present
+ No one else knows the shoes you walk in
+ Being your own worst self-critique
+ Artists are given gifts so that they may share them with others
+ Astronauts are a metaphor for humanity
+ “I will never paint another dead Indian”
+ Strategizing financial resources
+ Good friends babysit you on shrooms
+ Thank you Erin Currier @erincurrierfineart for connecting us :)
+ Shoutout to Ofuskie’s girlfriend Sheyenne @sheyenne.sky
+ Shoutout to Ofuskie’s friend Wes @shooting4balance
+ We become powerful through the help of our community
+ I would never recognize my younger self

A taste:
“The main mission of the [Alexander Contemporary] gallery is to be artist-led. I want artists to have fair treatment within the gallery business. My galleries have always treated me great, but […] one of my friends ended up signing a contract where if he sells anything in the state of New Mexico, he has to give 50% to the gallery, even if the gallery isn’t involved at all.”

Favorite saying:
“Life is a rollercoaster and there’s only one direction that you can go.”

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Current exhibition
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico

The scene:
We are sitting at Cynthia’s dining table inside her beautiful home, which is a sculptural display everywhere the eye travels. I’m obsessed with her kitchen, which has grey walls and ceiling to counter shelves stacked with colorful vintage ceramic Fiesta plates and bowls. The light coming from the windows is shaded and creates a sense of being enveloped inside a sacred space meant for contemplation and non-distraction. As I learn, this is intentional. Join us for our candid conversation about making a living as an artist with zero digital interaction.

Highlights:
+ Business name: Cynthia Cook Fine Art (no website, search her name)
+ The “Terrible Mutual Admiration Society” (TMAS) TM
+ Cynthia has a landline and writes letters - with stamps - that’s it!
+ No cell phone, no texting, no email, no social media
+ Talismans
+ @erincurrierfineart is a super-connector and “Godess Incarnata”
+ The new technology of the land and farming
+ Making a living as an artist for 34 years
+ Hard lessons - the best life teachers
+ “I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden”
+ “There’s a lot of tooth and claw to life”
+ A description of Cynthia’s art process
+ Repoussé: patterns formed by hammering or pressing, esp. of metal
+ Collages made of trash - “enshrining natural ephemera”
+ Jewelry made from recycled metal from an origin of silver and gold-smithing
+ Refusing to work with newly-mined metals
+ @parsonsschoolofdesign Studio Art degree
+ The expectations of the modern digital world
+ “We don’t want to be with anybody who doesn’t want to be present with us”
+ Making an effort to be with people (is not texting)
+ The mark of the artist - “resisting the chicanery of the gnomes”
+ Choosing a perspective of optimistic hopeful belief
+ Carcass collage gifts from wild foxes
+ Cynthia knew she would be a working artist at 4 years old
+ The awareness and confidence of living hand-to-mouth
+ The arts are a time capsule of artists sharing through the ages
+ Balancing extroverted interviews and introverted nature
+ Hindsight, building blocks
+ “Quietly Courageous” (my biggest compliment ever!)
+ Having an organic, genuine exchange with another human
+ An archivist approach to documenting reality, anthropology
+ Clairaudio (like clairvoyance) - when you hear sounds others can not
+ Empathy and compassion and gifted sensibilities
+ Caring for aging parents, with Alzheimers
+ A young mind and an aging body
+ Warrior-healer-goddesses-type-people
+ Giving compliments is a lost art
+ Doing your art with whatever medium it requires
+ Live music is profound because the moment is lost as soon as you’ve heard it
+ Most of the behaviors we have are projections of our self
+ Do birds take it personally when an animal kills their young?
+ The qualities of a good Boy Scout - a post-it story
+ “Don’t worry twice” - wait for the data

A taste:
“I first encountered that saying at a job I had in college. I worked at a vintage clothing store for this fabulous goddess woman - it was kind-of a front for her drug dealing business. […] The only time she ever got in a car wreck was when she was trying to drive sober.”

Favorite saying:
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” - Desiderata 

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@erincurrierfineart
erincurrierfineart.com

The scene:
We are sitting on the front patio of Erin’s home and studio in her adorable bungalow community. It feels like a protective nest - and the birdsong attests to that. We are enshrined by climbing rose bushes that will bloom in the hundreds soon, 10 or so talismans from best friend/artist Cynthia Cook, and Erin’s early collage art of buddhist deities. Join us for a very thoughtful conversation on supportive artist communities, how we see others, and our power of perspective about life.

Highlights:
+ First art show in 1998, at the coffee shop she worked at, using their trash
+ “The impermanence of phenomena”
+ Started by making portraits of people using their own trash
+ Collage was her strong suit, so she leaned into painting to get better
+ Her true love is drawing - all of her artwork begins in sketchbooks / travel journals
+ Scaling from a 6-inch sketchbook to a 7-foot painting
+ Began drawing before she could speak or walk
+ Using art to get better grades in law and physics classes
+ Using drawing to communicate across language barriers
+ BFA in Theater Design: studied costume design, set painting and design
+ Dzogchen buddhist meditation practice
+ Artists who say they “paint for themselves” vs. intentionally sharing with the public
+ All art is created through the filter of our own perception - something only we can see that way. We are idealizing it by choosing what to put forth of it, which is a political act because we’re creating the kind of world we want to live in
+ Her art is about humans that she wants other humans to know about
+ She wants others to see the beauty she sees in others
+ She paints people how she sees them - their highest self
+ When you love someone unconditionally, you’re seeing what they could be - their highest potential
+ New Mexico artists support and encourage one another - they succeed together
+ Artists promoting each other by sharing art, journalists, gallerists and collecting each others’ art
+ Older artists nurturing younger artists - shoutout to @tobymorfinart
+ Contemporary artists who have learned from their ancestors and modernized it @rosebsimpson @romeroartprojects @arthurlopezsantos
+ The value system of depth and heart, family and ancestors, craft and spirit
+ Creating for the purpose of showing us all of our similarities
+ Traveling reveals our commonalities far out-weigh our differences
+ The more open we are, the more open others are
+ Laughing off the stresses
+ Treating everyone equally and with respect and interest - filmmakers to garbage collectors
+ Interviewing is like drawing - subjects feel honored that someone gives them time
+ Having more ideas than time, and being ok with that
+ Living every day as your own, how and with whom you want to spend it
+ We have the power to curate our lives by being kind to others
+ Be how you want the world to respond to you
+ Complimenting others as a way of reflecting the beauty you see in them back to them

A taste:
“I feel grateful…for my friends, for my family. [...] …the beauty of the morning light and the sound of the birds or to be able to have a cup of coffee, like wow, how lucky am I?”

Favorite saying:
“It’s another beautiful day, what do you want to do with it, how do you want to live it?”

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@sagewolf_interviews

The scene:
We are sitting in the “Secret Garden” of Rachel and Chris’s LA home - which they so generously have made my home with them. These guys are my family, truly. They let me be 1000% myself and whomever I’m becoming. After many others’ requests for me to be interviewee, I chose Rachel to be my interviewer for my Sagewlf Interviews Podcast. I knew from the moment I met her that we were sisters for life and actually it was more like “It’s so nice to see you again!” Join us in the garden for the truth-telling of Sagewlf.

Highlights:
+ When I started going by Sage, my middle name
+ My “thing” that I can’t not do is these interviews with all of you
+ Creating an intentional gypsy life
+ Traveling to always be headed toward the people I love
+ My process in editing and note-taking for the interviews
+ The importance of curating the environment for the interviewee
+ Using social media to build community
+ How Sagewolf Interviews began
+ Learning how to build a website and do audio editing
+ Being a recovering perfectionist
+ Saying fuck it and pressing publish
+ Experimenting with and learning new tools
+ Beginning recording with my grandfather’s life story
+ Figuring out what is true to me, what I give a shit about
+ Doing everything at 150%, so choosing my “things” wisely
+ Recovering from perfectionism
+ Resourcing interviewees from my life - past and present
+ Learning how to approach a stranger for an interview
+ Being intentionally honest and vulnerable with others
+ Bringing out vulnerability and the desire to share in others
+ Learning to listen to others and making them feel heard
+ Changing from a fly on the wall to a fully expressed and joyful human
+ Why the name Sagewolf - a story about wolf behavior
+ Having interviewees choose their environment to create comfort
+ Eliminating considerations of vulnerability
+ Being invited into a sacred space by another
+ Being strong-willed, perseverant and adaptable
+ Disappearing from confrontative experiences
+ We have what we need in us already, we just have to learn how to use it
+ Self-reliance is a buffer for being vulnerable with others
+ Moving from LA to Utah and waking up to your own BS
+ Cultivating community without stereotypes
+ Finding “family” and “home” everywhere
+ Mormons are some of my favorite humans on the planet
+ Getting high off human exchanges
+ Contouring ourselves to create a comfortable place for others
+ Seeing ourselves - our own reflections - in others
+ Not allowing humility to keep you from interacting with others
+ Loving your younger little sad self
+ Aiming to get back to the young, innocent, confident self
+ Appreciating self as we are
+ What I want the outcome of the interview project to be
+ We have an obligation to share our unique gift with our world
+ The journey is the joy

A taste:
“It’s up to us, we have a conscious choice to make. We live in a very victim mentality culture […] and it has intentionally disempowered us. It’s time for people to realize how actually powerful they already are and all they need to do is act on that […] and see their power and not be afraid of that. I have total control over every situation because I choose how to respond […] I can create an opportunity out of that for myself to better learn something..."

Favorite saying:
“Lemonade.” (When you get lemons, make lemonade)
“When the student is ready, the teacher arrives.” (from interviewee Lisa Farmer)

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@codyacaldwell

The scene:
We are sitting on the front patio of the newlywed’s first home together, dodging the SoCal sun - and not complaining about it one bit. Cody is one of the most self-aware and kind young men I’ve ever met. He has the biggest heart to help the world around him - his community and the world at large. And he’s shaping what he’s “doing” around how he is “being.” I’d like a world full of Codys please and thank you. Join us for a heartfelt conversation about fighting our own demons and being the change we want to see in our world.

Highlights:
+ Brand new hubby wubby to Nicole
+ (Check out how similar his answers are to Nicole’s…match made in heaven)
+ Wants to help others physically, mentally, and spiritually
+ Waiting for his PA application acceptance
+ Helper role models: Dad is a firefighter, Grandma is a nurse
+ Shaped from a young age from his mom having rheumatoid arthritis
+ MCAT exam covid cancellation changed med school direction
+ Was aiming for Orthopedic Surgeon
+ PA’s can work in dermatology (and do Botox - yes please and thank you)
+ Wants to do plastic surgery (save his contact info!)
+ Choosing plastic surgery for self confidence
+ Not doing surgery for women trying to look like photoshopped IG photos
+ Please don’t try to be a boring barbie lookalike - you’re gorgeous!
+ Choosing Christianity for the positive life it guides
+ Choosing hard change and ending limiting friendships
+ Everything has a purpose
+ We must work on ourselves before helping others
+ Feeling blessed and humble
+ Helpful traits: being personable, caring and loving
+ Loving the cultural traditions of your mate’s family
+ Choosing your partner as a lifelong teacher and teammate
+ Unhelpful trait: self-criticism
+ Carpe Diem, today is a new day, tomorrow is not promised
+ Gratitude turns being hard on yourself into humbleness
+ Self-criticism can be viewed as self-awareness, which can lead to personal development
+ How can we create opportunities for our own growth out of any life event
+ Fixing ourselves fixes our world around us
+ Being abundantly joyful and giving that freely to everyone
+ Sharing our storms with each other
+ Persevering through personal short-comings
+ Building the foundation of your relationships with religion
+ Religion as a supportive community of love, a safety net
+ Empathizing with the homeless
+ Being inspired by your parent’s strengths
+ Knowing you have a lot to give to your world
+ No separation in the way you’re “being” and what you’re “doing”
+ Younger self: everything is going to be ok, stop worrying
+ Love life and be the blessing you were meant to be
+ Doing what you’re doing now leads you to where you’re going
+ Being a “sinner” - depression, distractions from looking up/forward
+ Knowing your actions come from pure intention
+ We all want to be loved - so we should all love each other
+ Self-hatred is uncomfortable with receiving love
+ The hope that by sharing honestly, we can impact others positively

A taste:
“It’s tough. Change is tough. Unfortunately through that change I had to break off some friendships and certain things that were tying me down or keeping me from advancing on who I wanted to be.”

Favorite saying:
Bible verse, Romans 2:4 “Do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of Jesus brought you to repentance.” (A personal reminder of choosing change)

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@nicoleliolie

The scene:
We are sitting on the front porch of Nicole’s adorable apartment, 2 blocks from Seal Beach, CA, on a damn gorgeous So-cal day. She shares this apartment with her brand-new husband and this is the first time she has ever lived outside her parents home. Nicole and I first worked together 6-ish years ago and have seen each other through huge life changes. She is the most integrous and kind person I know - and I don’t use those words lightly. Join us for a conversation between 2 girls cut from the same cloth (fashion pun - obvi).

Highlights:
+ 10 months newlywed
+ We’ve built some big brands together - GRLFRND and Boyish
+ Forever saved as “intern” in my phone - a sweet inside joke
+ Paris Fashion Week, pushing me in a wheelchair
+ I lost her grandmother’s earrings in Paris (and still feel guilty)
+ Helping others is above all else
+ Mentoring and being a kick-ass mentee
+ Post-it addict rehabilitated with Google docs
+ Dad and mom both raised her to help others
+ Feeling like you don’t fit in and proving yourself
+ If we don’t share our stories with others, what good does it do?
+ Taking pride in being an example for others
+ Being a fashion educator
+ Designing jeans to make your butt look great
+ Teaching the importance of networking and resourcing
+ Teaching the tangibility of fashion as a career
+ Prioritizing your passion project
+ Setting boundaries for your self and what feeds you
+ Determination and hard work
+ The connections that open doors in life
+ Synchronicity and God’s direction
+ Christianity and celibacy values
+ Sticking to your beliefs and convictions
+ Stubbornness as a blessing and a curse
+ Saying yes to too many things
+ Learning boundaries through depression
+ Being part of the Portuguese community
+ Life revealing the people who don’t compliment you
+ Being ok with yourself, on your own
+ Learning to love ourselves first and accept love from others
+ Finding others with your same values
+ Using negativity to grow stronger
+ The importance of faith and family
+ Learning to talk through embarrassment and vulnerability
+ Developing tools to handle future challenges
+ Learning to find peace in your storms
+ “It’s just a pair of jeans”
+ Not letting fashion consume you
+ Focus on yourself, not on others
+ Being happy with how you’re living your life - feeling aligned
+ Living without regrets
+ Being courageous
+ Flexibility and going with the flow
+ We need more togetherness, less politics and bullshit
+ How hard is it to smile or wave at someone? Not at all
+ Additional story that we forget to tell

A taste:
“This whole week I’ve really been convicted by this word Courage. […] Having this idea of being courageous. And it could be in the big things, it could be in the small things, but also being courageous in my mind - how I’m thinking […] not be so fearful, being courageous in my heart, or doing something that shows physical courage.”

Favorite sayings:
“Just breathe.”
“God’s got you.”
“Courage.”

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The scene:
We are sitting in Sabrina’s very jungly living room having tea and rolling cigarettes. She’s so god damn intentional about how she lives that she spends about 5 minutes rolling each ciggy, starting with a very careful spiral roll of the tip filter. I watch in awe and reverence. And then we talk about sex, meditation, fashion - anything and everything. Join us in the jungle of our minds as we discuss the passion not of doing, but of BEING.

Highlights:
+ Aiming to do all life tasks with intention and presence
+ OG New Yorker who grew up in France
+ Lived in LA now for 9 years
+ Algerian mother raised in France as a Muslim
+ Jewish New Yorker father
+ United Colors of Benetton family
+ Close siblings that aren’t blood-related
+ Art: symbolic language, sensory experience, pushing the bounds, living it
+ Storytelling theme - how to connect people and tell their stories
+ Gallery space isn’t made to welcome all kinds of people
+ Art is something that is for everyone, so is nature
+ Being exposed to things early on in life opens doors
+ Art is how language can be nonverbal
+ Used Proust as an interview template
+ Whatever comes out is what gets delivered
+ Becoming a features editor for print
+ Being in a position to give others an opportunity
+ Learning whether you’re big picture or the doer
+ Giving up control and delegating to others
+ Book: The Artist’s Way - a 12 week program
+ The shadow artist operates on the outskirts without vulnerability
+ Getting a sense of self-worth by being of service to others
+ Financial codependence of representing artists
+ Returning to the artistic practices of childhood
+ Creating art for the simple sake of joy
+ Not being able to hide when you write
+ Writing first thing in the morning
+ Monetizing passions
+ Prioritizing a spiritual life - Vipassana meditation practice
+ Intentionally working with purpose-driven companies
+ “We were together, I forget the rest”
+ The ways we show love are our truest passion
+ What do I make when no one is watching?
+ How else do we share outside of social media?
+ Falling out of love with New York, seeking space and light
+ Meeting your life partner in your new city
+ Positive qualities taken to extreme become a hindrance
+ Empathy can show up as codependency or a lack of discernment
+ Reliability and perseverance can also blind you to other opportunities
+ Many obstacles and resistance are good signs to change course
+ Missed opportunities by being too controlling of your path
+ Sabrina’s description of our recent Joshua Tree meditation retreat
+ Learning that our self-reliance can be complimented by community support
+ Younger self: trust yourself and don’t try to please everyone
+ Don’t fuck with it, the web of your life needs everything as it is
+ Finding Alan Watts

A taste:
“How can I keep that sensitivity and yet still self-protect and not lose myself in the pain of another? Because yes I can be there and feel for you and send love to you but I don’t have to get lost in you…self-sacrifice and lose track of my own mission and plan of whatever it is. Getting lost in it doesn’t always necessarily drive to the most clarity action.”

Favorite saying:
“Humans - we suffer because we take too seriously what the gods have made for fun.” - Alan Watts

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@Moonuntitled
TV appearance: Baker's Dozen on Hulu, episode 5

Highlights:
+ 3 years, 5 months, 17 days sober (and counting)
+ His last night partying was with yours truly…
+ “Dance moves are just like body words”
+ Speaking in allegory and metaphors and parables
+ Having a boner for living without any of the lies he’s told himself
+ Lower gut health - “it’s right up your alley”
+ Learning to do less and consider them wins
+ Doing things that are not outside yourself
+ Being truly free from the idea of yourself
+ “Get off the cross, someone needs the wood”
+ It’s the little things (that are HUGE)
+ Addiction = no naps
+ Changing your agreement with a space from your past
+ It’s best to just dive in and worry about fighting the sharks later
+ Designing your journey
+ Sharing the deepest things at AA meetings
+ Helping friends who are battling cancer
+ Shedding the shame and judgement of oneself
+ Living out loud means resonating from the deepest part of you
+ Our own voice coming back to us
+ How we get small to hear ourselves
+ Narrating our own lives
+ Thanking the universe for the devastations that bring self-awareness
+ Love, money, purpose - your self identity as actions
+ Who are you when you disappear from your doings?
+ You’re not missing them, you’re missing you
+ Filling the cavern with things stunts self growth
+ “God can’t steer a parked car” - let the universe take control
+ Don’t be ashamed of yourself
+ Do no harm
+ Tarot is your own voice coming back to you
+ Impulses and urges that are not in alignment with your higher self
+ “Pause when agitated”
+ Vulnerability is a lasso of truth
+ Telling your story so raw that it allows others to be honest with themselves
+ Being up for 6 days and suicide becoming an “amazing” idea
+ Becoming an AA Sponsor
+ Shame is the fear of disconnection - Brené Brown
+ Safety is knowing the crazy - choosing place
+ You can’t take the Kansas out of a boy
+ Create your village
+ Baking with LOVE
+ “I have a mouth like an old drag queen”
+ Having a quick brain
+ “I was me playing the role of me”
+ “Connecting is my superpower”
+ Being subtle
+ “The casual whisper of destiny”
+ Lock yourself away with the purpose of self-adoration
+ Get back to WONDER
+ “Living grammatically” TM
+ Community is just our other selves teaching us
+ “We are looking for the teacher in ourself that’s outside of ourself”
+ Things can be beyond better than we could ever imagine
+ Everything is the perfect moment
+ Our worst could be someone else’s best
+ Go nowhere to be seen by no one, to know
+ Getting cute and sexy for ourselves 
+ Playing the long game of life
+ Growing people and humanity as your hobby
+ Being the master of your own universe
+ Keeping secrets harms us more than others
+ “Sponsees are like pancakes” - you might burn a few
+ “Celebrate loudly to gives others hope who are suffering silently”

A taste:
“Self-editing and holding back, it’s a form of castration in a way. […] Give yourself permission. We are our own hoops that we jump through. […] We are our own lessons. We are our own teachers. It’s as complicated or as simple as we make it for ourselves.”

“I’ve also been living without nouns. If you take the nouns out of everything and you […] take out the person, the place, or the thing - [what’s left is] the actions. […] For example: ‘Kourtney Kardashian gave Mariah Carey a kidney.’ If you take out who they are and you take out what they gave, you just have the act of giving.”

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@rachelreidwilkie
@reidwilkie
@xi.spokensong
@riotmaterial
@enteringthemind

The scene:
We are sitting together on a rocking bench in the “secret garden” backyard of Rachel’s LA home, surrounded by a high wall of ivy and a loaded lemon tree. Though this is an idyllic oasis in the middle of the city, we are made very aware of what’s just over the wall as we hear sirens and industry and later are surrounded by helicopters. As well as a gorgeous birdsong. The contrast really emphasizes what humans normalize constantly. Join us in the garden as we “create” our life together to share with you.

Highlights:
+ We share the high of coming from a 4-day spiritual retreat in Joshua Tree
+ First pony at fourteen, falling in love with the care and freedom
+ “Mini Muscle” the naughty and very fast pony
+ Harnessing things often creates resistance and reaction
+ Releasing control, choosing trust
+ The liberation of traveling further outside your village
+ Viewing “The Arts” objectively, then embodying “The Art of Being”
+ Creating your life with intention, being a co-creator every second
+ Meditation and yoga practices for a mindful creation of life
+ XI: a new poetic musical collaboration
+ Turning personal poetry into public spoken song
+ Creating improvisational recordings together on the fly
+ “Woman” was made from one improvised take
+ Telling the story completely - creating music videos
+ Six-track album launched in September 2021
+ First professional live performance
+ Lifelong recurring nightmare of being unprepared to perform
+ The genre of poetry vs. the genre of spoken word
+ The divine transmission of writing poetry
+ Never edited any poems with the human intellect
+ Your past self communicating to your future self through poetry
+ The interpreter becomes the deliverer/translator
+ Living in a “golden triangle” - rotating homes every few months or weeks
+ Growing up in a village in nature and craving the anonymity of the city
+ Land that embraces the individual vs. land that embraces the group
+ Macro-dosing on mushrooms for intentional spiritual journeys
+ Surrendering and allowing is the ultimate strength of a person
+ You can’t helps others if you’re broken inside
+ Preparing yourself to contribute to others’ journeys
+ Not editing ourselves for others
+ Removing all considerations to focus on self work
+ A dad who encouraged independence for all women
+ Unconditional love and selflessness for others
+ When do you surrender independence for love?
+ Having stability and support to grow
+ “Kindness,” “being unoffensive and soft,” setting boundaries
+ Suffering silently and martyrdom - thousands of years of oppression
+ Cultivating compassion - the new artistic endeavor
+ Over-zealous self-reliance is a lack of trust and self-confidence
+ Everything is intertwined
+ Doing a shamanic journey session to heal your young self
+ Gratitude prayer can purify the energy of water
+ Neglect is worse than hatred

A taste:
“Please don’t dump your luggage in the middle and ask others to fix it.”

“Trust begins with yourself. […] It creates a natural calmness and confidence in your self-reliant capabilities, but it also creates a calm, trusted confidence in your community.”

Favorite daily ritual:
Morning gratitude ceremony blessing the Japanese tea she and her husband then put into their bodies.

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@cvonhassett
@enteringthemind
@riotmaterial
riotmaterial.com

The scene:
We are in the front garden of C von’s LA home smelling gardenia, lavender, sage, rosemary, roses, jasmine…Spring has sprung! And we are sitting under a gigantic bougainvillea tree covered in bright fuchsia leaves. While this sounds like a nature paradise, in true East Hollywood fashion, we are also 2 feet from a loud street and are visited by helicopters overhead. These two worlds describe C von in his life right now quite perfectly - loving and joyfully expressive with the faint whispers of a gone-bye era hard-edged life. Join us for all of it!

Highlights:
+ Highest passion: coming to know self
+ A mission that turned into a passion
+ Passion is now deeper, higher, broader
+ Meditation is a target, art and literature takes you in any direction
+ An origin of confusion, violence, and fear - growing up in LA in the 70’s
+ Demonic ghosts in his childhood house
+ Realigning the mind and heart can take 20-30 years
+ Re-calibrations from psychedelics, art, literature, relationships
+ Teachers that open doors in your life
+ “When the student is ready, the teacher arrives”
+ Every person is a teacher, a physical manifestation of energy
+ We need information to grow and change
+ If we know what we want, we receive what we need
+ English Literature teacher for High School and College
+ Father of two beautiful, intelligent, funny humans
+ Some books on meditations can be distractions
+ “Entering The Mind” is a great instruction manual
+ Meditation supersedes partying, easily
+ Finding meditation as a child studying nature
+ Not having a teacher but knowing something was missing
+ “The Black Elk Speaks” book gave early direction
+ Buddhism can become too dogmatic
+ Find your own wisdom mind - Dzogchen meditation practice
+ Living in three places - sort-of by choice
+ Being tenacious, obsessive, deep-diving - a double-edged sword
+ Training as a “warrior” as a response to an unsafe environment
+ Race wars in LA - fighting against a common enemy - the LAPD
+ Japanese martial arts - first dojo was with Chuck Norris
+ Learning how to defend and deflect
+ Grew up in a boxing family
+ Losing hostility when it becomes unnecessary
+ The community is interdependent, there is no self without
+ Meditation removed anxiety and depression
+ Getting out of your own way
+ People who see our best self help us see our best self
+ There’s literally nothing to worry about - not even death
+ Loving being alive on this planet
+ Saving each other from ourselves
+ This life is preparing us for our next life
+ The eternal self is watching us
+ Meditation is a constant recalibrating

A taste:
“I used to mediate to them. Sit in my little box here in LA. Watch the helicopter come through the space of my awareness and watch my awareness looking through the helicopter. […] Sit there and use the helicopter as part of my meditation practice - a mantra almost.”

Word habits:
“Amazing!” 
“Beautiful!”

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