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You first encountered pottery as a teenager. It can be so hard to get the hang of centering your clay and all of that—was it an immediate affinity, or did it take time to develop?
I started working with clay when I was 14, a freshman in high school. My portfolio for art school was mostly drawing. And then I decided to go into ceramics because I was pr...
Where does your writing start?
This question made me laugh. It sent me into a philosophical spiral of what does it mean for the writing to start. I don’t know if you did that on purpose to be sneaky.
I wanted it to be vague.
My first instinct is to say that it never starts because it is always running. I am always writ...
It feels to me like a lot of your work is about politically charged subjects. Especially the crowd work. I haven’t seen your set, but your comedy talks about racial tensions, disability, etc. Is that just what you’re interested in? Is it something you feel a responsibility to address?
Oh, it is my natural interest. I’m interested in people’s political...
How do you make room for play and getting in touch with your inner child in your creative process?
In general, I am someone who is very childlike. I thought that I would grow out of it. But I understand the beauty of being playful and incorporating play into our adult lives. The way that I do that is mostly getting out into nature and being curious, b...
You’re in the Yamaha studio right now. Can you tell me what your day-to-day looks like there?
I do a lot of production for Yamaha artists, who have access to this studio as a perk. I’m the in-house producer, engineer, collaborator. People will come in with recording projects or ideas for how they want to use instruments in unconventional ways, and I h...