https://Art2Life.com - I love how the art-making journey can begin in the most unexpected, inconspicuous ways. Everyone’s origin story is different, but we all share the spark. That moment on what was most likely on an ordinary day, while doing seemingly unimportant things, where IT happened. A chance meeting with someone. The first paragraph of a book you happened to glance at, left behind at your table by someone you didn't know. Or perhaps it was a piece of art you saw that changed everything. It increased the volume of the call to your art just loud enough that you couldn't somehow begin. 

For Daniel Wurtzel, the Brooklyn-based air installation and performance artist, it was simply a leaf amazingly suspended above a subway air grate. It was hovering, as if by magic, 12 inches above the ground. Something about this moment stirred him. He couldn't let it go. He had to follow its path. Daniel Wurtzel began. Today, Daniel's ethereal air sculptures have been seen in Cirque du Soleil in Amaluna, the Sochi Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony, and countless museums and science centers across the globe. His kinetic sculptures and installations combine the lightweight and poetic materials of paper, silk, and glitter with the most wondrous but invisible material of all: Air. 

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LISTEN IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN…

Getting to know Daniel Wurtzel and his gravity-defying art [2:35]

The truth in materials and why ideas are so important to the creative process [7:22]

How Daniel freed his art and found his way in the art world [12:28]

Gifts from the natural world and the power of noticing  [20:43]

The role music and performance play in Daniel’s art [25:11] 

The moment Daniel knew he found his art [28:32]

Diving into Daniel’s creative process [33:20]

Looking down the road ahead [37:21]

Going outside of yourself and the most important choice an artist can make [39:38]

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

Richard Serra (Artist): https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/richard-serra 

Isamu Noguchi (Artist): https://www.noguchi.org 

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CONNECT WITH DANIEL WURTZEL

Website: https://www.danielwurtzel.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielwurtzel 

Chaos: Making a New Science (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick/dp/0143113453 

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