#0043: Ruby Silvious on making it all up as you go + testing your discipline

As I record this podcast, I’m slowly working on and growing the 33K Task List Project. After facilitating a craftworking (crafting + networking) event in Ruby’s town, the librarians lovingly wouldn’t let me out of there without the copy of 363 Days of Tea. 

Today's episode is a great example of how you really never know how things are going to come together. The librarians’ recommendation ultimately led me to reach out to Ruby. And that, friends, is how I met Ruby.  She is a visual artist and a graphic designer whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and repurposed materials.

Here is a little bit more about Ruby: On January 3rd 2015, Ruby started a project called 363 Days of Tea as a visual daily record of her impression of the moment; using emptied, dried, and flattened tea bags as little miniature canvases; altering them to create a new work of art, every single day over the course of 363 days. Just amazing! Plus, she’ll talk about the significance of 363 days, instead of the expected 365 days, which in my humble opinion, is the height of perfect imperfection.

In early March 2018, her art was featured at Art on Paper, an international art fair in New York City. Prior to that, marking the introduction of a new international artist-in-residency program, she was the first resident artist at LM Studio in Hyères at the southern tip of France’s illustrious Côte d’Azur region. There she showcased paintings inspired by her visit in a solo exhibit called Printemps en Provence: 26 Days of Tea. Her art is featured all around the world - in both public and private collections.

In this episode, Ruby and I talk about how she came to be the creator of this amazing tea bag art. We touch on creativity and inspiration. Ruby also talks about all of the things she learned over the course of her artistic journey, including how being an artist, especially one committing to create one piece of art a day, was a lesson in practicing discipline.

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Connect with Ruby on social media and on the web: Website | Facebook  | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn363 Days of Tea: a Visual Journal on Used Tea Bags by Ruby SilviousRuby’s sister Rita’s artworkArtists Inspiring ArtistsDesign TaxiBored PandaArts Students League of New YorkOribrami ExhibitSalvaged Exhibit“Take your broken heart, and turn it into art.” Meryl Streep, Golden Globes speech, August 2017Kickass Theme Music: “Things Are Getting Better” Written by Rishi Dhir. Performed by The High Dials.Stay in the loop about future Le vital corps Salon episodes or with Kara: Twitter | Instagram | The List (sent monthly-ish including helpful health + lifestyle information)

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