126. Kristen Egan: on folklore universe and the gesture of a gourd

Kristen Egan is a mixed media artist – primarily gourds, wood, and paper clay – based somewhere in the woods of Pennsylvania. Her folkloric and characterful masks drip with personality and take illustration 3 dimensional. See her work on Instagram at kristeneganart.

This episode contains a PSA about breast cancer.

In this episode: 

• How to grow as an artist when people expect the same type of work from you (one thing at a time)
• Purposeful imperfection
• Finding myth in every day life

This is kind of a follow-up episode to episode 181 of the Tenet podcast, where they talk about the basics - sourcing gourds and art school, some background, all the good stuff - it's an excellent episode and you can find that here: https://www.tenetpodcast.com/episodes/ep-181-kristen-egan-mixed-media-sculpture-masks

We mention

• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• Arch Enemy Arts (Philadelphia): https://www.archenemyarts.com/