Please enjoy Episode 20, which was recorded in July 2021. This concludes Season 1 of The Mirror, and after a year's worth of living and change and reflection, I feel ready to release this and to move forward to a new stage of creativity. Season 2, with some major changes will be coming in 2023. Until then, thank you for listening. 

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

Episode Links:

• The Alphabet - David Lynch 
• Six Men Getting Sick - David Lynch 
• Short Films Collection - David Lynch 
• i could write my magnum opus or i could simply go to bed - Savannah Brown
• Creative Depression - This Jungian Life (Podcast) 
• Small Roads - James Benning 
• Film Collection - James Benning 
• Lars von Trier: The Burden From Donald Duck | Louisiana Channel 
• The Frequency of Fear: Dean Hurley Interview 

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Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.

Our sixth dream (and final for this season) is What is a podcast? by Anselm McGovern. McGovern offers a salient reckoning with social realities of podcasts, and their simultaneous alienating and comforting features. The essay can be read here. 

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In Episode 19, after an extended life update, I discuss the passing of manga-ka Kentaro Miura and the way that cultural reactions show the range of ways that people respond to such news (in some ways better than others). With this event as a heuristic for contemporary culture, I posit a different way of viewing artists - as people first, separate from their work, and irreducible to the sum total of their creations - and speak about the power and impact of Miura's Berserk series. 

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

Episode Links:

• Kink Drifter - 26" BMX (Video) 
• Marin Alcatraz - 26" Dirt Jumper MTB 
• THERE AND BACK WITH A BIKE - A DAY IN BARCELONA - Matt Jones (Video) 
• Berserk - Kentaro Miura (Deluxe Editions) 

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Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.

Our fifth dream is Van Gogh, the Suicide Provoked by Society by Antonin Artaud, the French writer, poet, dramatist, visual artist, essayist, actor and theatre director, who himself was interned in asylums for nine years, at the end of which time he wrote this moving essay. This reading as an abridged version of selected passages from the full essay which can be read here. 

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In this special episode, I am joined by my sister Ebony who creates in a range of mediums from fashion design, collage, and film, and we discuss subjectivity in art, the power of raising questions without positing answers, and the magic of viewing art out in the real world. We touch on a range of film work, including Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, Memories of Murder and Parasite by Bong-Joon Ho and the work of Wong Kar Wai, as well as discussing the importance of curating your own taste, making your art your way, and the necessity for curiosity. 

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

Episode Links:

• Il Maestro by Martin Scorsese (Harper's Magazine) 
• THE GAP by Ira Glass (Video) 

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In Episode 17 of The Mirror, I extol the virtues of a practice of reflection and lingering as part of a meaningful life, and a healthy approach to creating art. This extensive look at my own practice is a recap on the previous 6 months of changes in my life, from quitting social media and developing a healthier relationship to communication technology, as well as expanding my artistic horizons through watching films and reading fiction literature. I offer in this episode how all of this has informed my practice for the better, along with my view of what separates humans from mere animals, before sharing some insights from Frank Herbert's brilliant novel Dune.

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

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The Mirror Theme is written, produced and performed by Annalisa Vetrugno, with drums contributed by Giacomo Greco.

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Episode 16 of The Mirror is a special episode, one devoted entirely to discussing Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, a film from 2012 that is both a wonderfully crafted work of cinema, and a powerful lens through which to look at our highly-subjectivised times. The Master, in both cinematography and performance, exemplifies a rare restraint in Western cinema, and takes a beautifully naturalistic approach, finding more in common with the European arthouse than contemporary Hollywood cinema. This study is spoiler free, and goes into detail in the form and process of cinema.

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

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The Mirror Theme is written, produced and performed by Annalisa Vetrugno, with drums contributed by Giacomo Greco.

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Fever Dreams is a miniseries featuring works of fiction, essays and non-fiction read without embellishment or analysis. Literature was my first great artistic love, and I regard it as possibly the richest art form, with its ability to showcase the dark interior of humanity, and traverse time, place and space unlike any other medium. Fever Dreams features a selection of the macabre and the mundane, the fantastical and the concrete, works that have struck me in a meaningful fashion, and that I feel are worth sharing.

Our fourth dream is A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, a short story that was first published in 1928, and details the tragic reflection on life by a hunger artist at the nadir of his career and public popularity. The story presciently illuminates the way our contemporary world views artists, the transience of culture, and modernity's spiritual death. 

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In Episode 15 of The Mirror, I talk about the importance of taking risks as an artist, being prepared to fail, to do things that are unpopular, and to experiment - especially in the homogenised desert of our contemporary culture. I detail the 5 year-long making of David Lynch's debut feature film Eraserhead, and the long, lingering process of the painter Antonio López García, as well as discussing the impact of early silent cinemas innovators and the importance of sharing your work with others as a way of understanding what makes you unique in your process and final works.

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

Episode Links:

• David Lynch: Eraserhead Stories (Making of Documentary)
• Antonio López García (Painting)
• Stormzy - Wiley Flow (Music Video)
• Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927) - Full Movie
• A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902) - Full Movie
• AV Festival 12: Slow Cinema Discussion with Ben Rivers and Lav Diaz

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The Mirror Theme is written, produced and performed by Annalisa Vetrugno, with drums contributed by Giacomo Greco.

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In Episode 14 of The Mirror, I sit in my backyard and ponder the reality of when creativity becomes routine, what this means, and what role this serves for us as artists.

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The Mirror looks at cultural production through a critical and philosophical lens, emphasising the importance of historical understanding, deep reflection, and true situational awareness for developing higher levels of craftsmanship and discipline in artistic practice.

Subscribe to my YouTube channel for full episodes and exclusive segments featuring original, meditative imagery: Justin Reid - YouTube

The Mirror Theme is written, produced and performed by Annalisa Vetrugno, with drums contributed by Giacomo Greco.

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Annalisa Vetrugno - Commissions | Instagram

Giacomo Greco - Instagram

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