The Tangentalist

Apr 25 2024

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Examining reality's ups and downs of Bipolar, this creative hacks through the confusion of today. While her insights will amuse you, as her experiences enlighten. What is it really like being tripped up by disorder?

Going beyond my disorder now this tangentalist speaks with Artists about their imagination, insights, and inspirations. What is it that led them down this creative path as a career choice? How does their chosen medium continue to motivate them creatively? Where do they see their career in ten years taking them?

Occasionally I will pepper this podcast with an update on mental health and what my perspective has taught me recently, and various insights I have found in the social sphere on better copping strategies. Because couldn't we all benefit from some additional positivity?

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Episode #3: Graeme Luey: Desert Floods His Graphics

Apr 25 2024 51 mins

Being a Graphic Designer has been an exploratory career for this Creative Professional. Graeme has been a director of a Toronto Art Gallery for over a decade, and has now found his footing internationationally in Mexico. What led him to bringing his innovative business south of the border?In this podcast we dive deep to discover what is behind the fabric of his creative practice. W

Episodde #2:Gord Moss: Graphically Musing Rhythyms

Apr 25 2024 27 mins

On today's show we have the multi-disciplinary Graphic Designer and Artist Gordon Moss. With years of experience Moss shares with us what inspired him down this path. How does his love of music play a part in his creativity? Has he found a platform for the two fields to balance each other? How has he seen Graphic Design change over the years? What made him decide to develop his cre

Episode #1 Claudia Dorey: Envisioning A Whole World

May 03 2023 70 mins

Speaking with Montreal based Artist Claudia Dorey she reveals her process, her inspirations, and how she develops her imagination. Why is she happy when people dislike her art? And the meaning behind her fluid ingenuity. How do people react to her unique style? How does she gain her introspection? And how does she deal with the challenge of finding spaces to show her creativity? Jo

#31 Sharpen My Karma By Redirecting Energies

Oct 14 2022 17 mins

How can we define this word karma? Is it only a spiritual definition? Or can we reframe it and spin it to mean something that we can individually perceive to be special and unique for ourselves in our own lives?In this episode we discover new strategies to balance the seasonal affective blues, we discuss our current tools, and how discovering other insights may just be the ticket t

#30.5 Slowing Down Is A Hard Sail

Sep 27 2022 16 mins

Let’s just drown in it today for this episode. It’s an overwhelming feeling this week. I don’t know what happened, but I just woke up today and nearly cracked. I would almost cry while doing the dishes!?I would wonder what is wrong with me?! I just realized I can’t do this routine that I had set up for myself this summer. I burnt out because I had stretched myself too thin.

Episode #30 Squinting Creativity: As I Do An About Face

Sep 02 2022 16 mins

Over the years since graduating university I thought being successful as an artist would just happen; that it would just fall in my lap. I think things like that only happen to the really wealthy people out there. Going to school for art was sort of an Alice in Wonderland kind of experiences in some ways; I was able to spend excessive amounts of time on creating magical beautiful p

Episode #29 Empathy Lacks: When Rudeness Is Apparent

Aug 10 2022 17 mins

Losing sight of the reality of the situation I had put myself in was the least of my worries. I had put myself in a precarious situation, and I had to untangle myself from it - easier said then done, especially since I was in the ICU and was in a coma. Building relationships again, starting fresh, and being mindful of my stumbles. Join Macy Gage as she shares when she recognized he

Episode #28 Abstracting Nature: Expanding Our Freaks

Jul 15 2022 17 mins

I have leaned on those first two words to becoming my focus as an artist, as a thinker, and how I see the world around me - I am always attempting to abstract the nature I see around me. Whether that be the physical natural world I like surrounding myself with; or the behaviors and relationships I see in the characters in stories, or even the people in my life. Expanding our freaks

Episode #27 Stonehenge, Stories, and Possibilities

May 27 2022 16 mins

This monumental arrangement of massive stones in Wales is how I sometimes saw Jude. How he carried himself, his strong, secure, and unmoving persona in his values, beliefs, and work ethic; has shown me how important he is in my life, and how I have taken him for granted for too long. His family are great to, similar to those ancient stones that stand upright in an organized, circul

Episode #26 Putting A Noose On It

Apr 26 2022 15 mins

This is a repurposing of the word noose: It has been a difficult two years but I know that in the face of trauma most of us can shine brighter because we see how fragile life really is. There is a time for recover, reflection, regrowth, regrouping, rebirth – it has many names wink to Renaissance. We need to treasure our family, our friends, and ourselves of course – let’s hon