In this episode of Your Art Is A Spell, Edgar Fabián Frías talks with artist and musician Colin Frangicetto Circa Survive (also known as ADHD, Space Case, and ColinCosmic) about resisting the pressure to become a single “brand” and staying true to your multi-passionate, witchy, chaotic creative self. They explore identity, pseudonyms, art practice, digital collage, abstraction, retrocausality, AuDHD, Patreon, full-time art life, and how to make expansive art in a world of algorithms, genres, and rigid systems that want you small and easy to consume.
00:00 – Intro: The Algorithm Wants a Brand. Your Soul Wants Chaos
Artists, witches, multi-passionates vs niche, brand, and algorithm pressure.
02:33 – Meet Colin Frangicetto
Multidisciplinary artist, musician of the band Circa Survive, and visual artist with many names: ADHD, SpaceCase, ColinCosmic.
05:28 – Monikers, Personas, and New Band Energy
Why artists use pseudonyms, “shiny new” energy, and resisting being easy to consume.
09:58– Leaving the Old Identity: Courage and Collapse
Devastation, closure, and choosing new creative identities despite industry expectations and branding.
12:24– Colin sharing about his journey creating digital art, Hic et Nunc, tezos, cryptoart, and where his name ADHD came from.
14:49 – The transience of everything and artists obsessing over being remembered and trying to curate how that will happen
16:06– Challenging the fear of Being Forgotten, Spiritual Surrender, Sacred Comedy
LSD experience, collectivism vs individual identity, releasing legacy anxiety.
21:46– ADHD Hyper Layered Art Practice: Collage, Inset Series, Digital Hoarding
Screenshots, archiving, multi-layered digital collage, excavation, and abstraction.
25:15– Retrocausality, Determinism, and Creative Flow
Trusting the subconscious, letting go of over-editing, and escaping aesthetic boxes.
29:18– Research Mode, Input/Output, and Capitalism Fatigue
Experimentation, films, books, archiving, and struggling with releasing work in a formal market.
32:58– Circa Survive Hiatus, Reunion, and Performing as Spiritual Reset
Band breakup and return, friendship mending, loud music as church-like catharsis.
35:28 – Full-Time Artist Life, Grief, Stability, and Patreon
Losing Benny, carving time for humans and animals, sustaining full-time art, and Colin’s Patreon (colincosmic).
42:52– Reflections from Edgar about conversation with Colin
Being in tune with our resistance and with what we need to support those parts of us that feel resistant or afraid. The burden of being known as an artist in a certain way and the lift and hard work it takes to build another persona or career. I also share about Mutant Magic and how it connects to my own need to have a container / shield to share vulnerable parts of myself.
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