BMP (Buffalo Music Players) BREAKING EPISODE: Sarah Jane Barry

Sarah Jane Barry is a Buffalo-transplant whose work is being shown in the Hunt Gallery until June 20. A lifelong creator, she started with photography, but soon found herself as a painter.

A strong advocate for the Buffalo community, she encourages young artists to continue creating and make the effort to show their work, a formula which she says will lead to success.

A great interview, she also gives an inside look on the Hunt Gallery's residency program and the language that artist speak to one another with when placed in proximity of each other. Take a listen and check out her work 403 Main St. Buffalo, NY.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 1:25

Man, life just isn't letting up. I feel like the walls are closing in, and I don't have a way to stop it. I wish there was somewhere I could go. Some place where I could just get away from everything and just be creative.

SPEAKER_05 1:42

There is creative work. Who said that? I heard you're playing all the duty the holy. Okay in the Great Arrow building on Elmwood Avenue. Use our space, our art supplies, and equipment to your heart's content. Let us hope you beat back less dress and feel centered again.

SPEAKER_04 2:05

Wow, that sounds great. I'll check it out.

SPEAKER_05 2:08

Always remember if the world has your creative spirits in a rut, come to the Buffalo Creative Workshop for a pick me up. More about Buffalo Creative Workshop can be found at Buffalo.creativeWorkshop on Instagram.

SPEAKER_06 2:27

Hello, BMP listeners. This is the Buffalo Music Players Podcast. I'm Benjamin Joe, your host, and my co-host, Max Fisher, is not available at this particular moment. So you'll be just talking to me, basically, listening for your own parasocial enjoyment. Sarah Jane Berry is uh my guest for today. She is an artist. We are sitting in her wonderful studio at the Hunt R Hunt Building?

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 2:50

Hunt Building.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Hunt Gallery.

SPEAKER_06 2:52

Hunt Gallery, looking at her her wonderful what do you call them her artwork, her work, prints, pieces, work?

SPEAKER_03 2:59

Paintings.

SPEAKER_06 3:00

Paintings.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

Inks are kind of their own thing, I would say.

SPEAKER_06 3:05

Inks are do their own thing?

SPEAKER_03 3:06

Yeah, they're kinda I mean I guess they're paintings, but they're kinda I don't know. I never know what to call them.

SPEAKER_06 3:11

You go to school for this?

SPEAKER_03 3:12

Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_06 3:13

Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Yeah, I didn't go to I didn't paint in school, I actually went to school for um I did photography in school, but I took all the basic, you know, general art classes.

SPEAKER_06 3:23

Yeah, the art spectrum, yeah. The color spectrum, I should say, forms, lines.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

It it all helped, but at the time I didn't feel like I knew how it was helping. It was it it was nice to have some time away from college to kind of figure out my own style and what I wanted to do.

SPEAKER_06 3:39

Oh, that's very cool. Where did you go to school?

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Uh Buff State.

SPEAKER_06 3:42

You went to Buff State? I went to Buff State. Max went to Buff State too, but he's not here to help talk about.

SPEAKER_03 3:46

Yeah, I um I I just picked like a school. I only applied to two. Um I got into the two schools and I was like, this one's further away, so Where are you from? Just Rochester.

SPEAKER_06 3:57

Oh, Rochester.

SPEAKER_03 3:58

So not super far, but it was far enough away to, you know, kind of start new.

SPEAKER_06 4:02

Yeah. Um like I didn't know anyone here and oh that was yeah, that's that's pretty tough. I I moved here without knowing anybody as well.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

It takes a second. It took definitely took about three years for me to feel like my home, but it does feel like home now. I can't really imagine like not living here at this point.

SPEAKER_06 4:18

Really?

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Yeah, like I I could I don't know, I could move around, but I just I don't know, my heart kind of is stuck here, I think.

SPEAKER_06 4:25

So you don't see yourself in Hawaii at some point in time?

SPEAKER_03 4:28

I mean, yeah, I would take it. You know, if the opportunity arose, I'm definitely I love traveling, I'm not opposed to it, but I don't know, I just feel at home here in a way that I never did in Rochester and Rochester's a weird place to grow up in. Yeah, and that might not even that might have just been the age that I that I was that I felt uncomfortable there. You know, I never lived there as an adult, so Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 4:49

Yeah, I don't actually feel very comfortable in my hometown of growing up in Leminster, Massachusetts. It's just I have buddies who still live there. And um, it's really fun to look at them by houses in the neighborhood because it's like I remember that house from like when I was five. It was right next to Friendly, so you bought it, like, and they're just like, Yeah, I know, I know, I bought the stupid like uh New England um deck double decker.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

This is pretty there.

SPEAKER_06 5:15

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is pretty, it is pretty. If you like Lowell, for instance, it's like it's a very nice place to go in. The whole city is like that basically, yeah. Um, so wh when did you figure out that you wanted to go and be like creative, like art? I mean, I'm sure there are a million people in your lives who said, hey, why don't you become a doctor or something like that?

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Yeah. Um, it was like the only thing that ever just came naturally to me. Like I, you know, I played sports and did different things in in school. I'm not like incapable of other things, but it was the only thing that I've ever done that just felt like intuitively like this is you know what I need to be doing. And I originally went to work. Yeah. Okay, I originally went to school for sociology very briefly, and I just found myself taking like when you know when you have the gen ads and you have that ability to take whatever you want. I found myself just taking art classes.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

Oh, very cool.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

And it kind of turned into like, okay, I guess we're gonna do this, and oh then you graduated. Yep, and I originally wanted to do art education, and I kind of just I just it got to a point where I was like, I need to just graduate, I'm gonna spend way too much money, you know, because I was paying for my own school.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:22

And so um I just ended up graduating with an art degree, and I've had a lot of bad jobs from there.

SPEAKER_06 6:30

Awesome. Yeah. I think that's probably what most people look for in artists is the weird jobs that they've had in their lives. That's you know, like when they're looking through your your work and they're just like, well, how'd she come up with this? Like, or like it's like like did you come up with this like fly fishing in Montana? It's like, no, actually, I was, you know.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

Yeah. Nothing too that crazy, like, you know, like waitressed a lot. Waitressing will do it. It was an art voice um when that was alive still.

SPEAKER_06 6:57

Doing art?

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Um, I just was like their calendar and arts editor.

SPEAKER_06 7:01

That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Yeah, it was it was fun, it was interesting, but it also I wish they wish I didn't about halfway. I was there right to the right when the ship was kind of sinking.

SPEAKER_06 7:10

Ooh, well, print media just in general.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

Yeah, I really kinda feel like I have more of an understanding about like how ads work and Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:22

Um we try to do commercials on this um program. It seems to have worked out pretty well. Max is a genius at making commercials, so.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

What do you do commercials for?

SPEAKER_06 7:32

For uh well, we do it for Mammoth Dispensary.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 7:34

And um we do another one for Shines Waxing Studio. And we do another one for the uh Buffalo Buffalo Creative Workshop. Yeah, yes, blisteries are the great places that you can go to. Advertise right here on the show. It's um yeah, I mean we we advertisement has always been a big thing for me too, because I've always loved watching the Super Bowl. Not because I like football in any way, shape, or form, but because I really enjoy the commercials and that kind of extended to every single ad that I would see, I would look at in a way that's sort of like critical. Like, is this a good commercial? Yeah. Like, is that ad calling to me? It's been a while since I've seen one that really like got me. Like sometimes they're really like they seem to have been getting worse and worse. Because, you know, when I was a kid, they was like to reach out and touch somebody, ATT, and it's just like, whoa, that's gonna stay in my heart for the rest of my life.

SPEAKER_03 8:23

Yeah, no, there were some real funny ones, and I just feel like lately I just feel like they're just trying to pile in as many celebrities as they can get.

SPEAKER_06 8:30

Yeah, I think we have too many cele celebrities. And all celebrities keep on living for too long.

SPEAKER_03 8:35

There's that too.

SPEAKER_06 8:36

Not that, you know, everybody that is a celebrity, like, you know, remain calm, I want you to live forever.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:43

Um, so this stuff that you make, I mean, I was talking to a little, we were talking a little off off camera, but um it's just uh it's very cerebral is always the word that comes to my mind. Like I almost feel like if there was uh a head or something like that around, like the the outline of somebody's skull around this, this would be in the brain, and I would be looking at the very essence of that person or like that that that thought or or that that idea. And um, and you agree, you said it's usually cerebral or ethereal, so I don't know if I'm actually using those words correctly or not.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Um I don't know, I feel like they all have a little bit of like a dreamy state, yeah. And kind of a childlike childlike, yes. Energy. Um, I don't know. For me, sometimes I feel like it's like a fun way to like I've always wished that there was a way to broadcast your dreams to people, like so they can like see it like a movie, but you know, no one ever kind of your dreams are stuck in your head, they look the way they look to you. And I always felt like I don't know, I feel like this is a way to kind of show how my brain works and oh that's crazy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:48

That's like they all seem to some are more spiral. Is that a word? Spiral?

SPEAKER_03 9:54

Like uh cyril.

SPEAKER_06 9:58

Yeah, something like that.

SPEAKER_03 9:59

Um and they all seem to have different people or Yeah, there's a lot of little like creatures, and some some of them are like repeating and will be in like multiple paintings. Um a lot of them are kind of hidden. Like I like I want you to spend some time staring at the painting.

SPEAKER_06 10:17

That's what's so great about it. Like a lot of times I'll look at a painting, I'm like, it's a cat.

SPEAKER_03 10:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:21

I got it.

SPEAKER_03 10:22

And sometimes I like I was saying to you earlier, like I I've had kids look at them, and that's a really cool experience because they see things that I don't see, and then I'm like, oh well tell me the story that you're seeing, and then it turns into this whole I don't know, collaborative thing.

SPEAKER_06 10:38

Very cool. This one looks kind of like Egyptian.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:43

Have you ever been to Egypt?

SPEAKER_03 10:44

I haven't.

SPEAKER_06 10:45

I haven't either.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

I've traveled, but I haven't been there.

SPEAKER_06 10:48

Where have you traveled to?

SPEAKER_03 10:49

Um, I did a travel abroad um in Siena, Italy. Oh, that's yeah. So I've been to Italy, Barcelona, um, I visited my friend in Argentina a few years ago. There you go. Yes, I've done some traveling.

SPEAKER_06 11:03

And does does it inform you your your art? Do you think? Do you think traveling is worth it, or is it really just excuse not to work?

SPEAKER_03 11:11

No, I think traveling's worth it. I don't know if I feel like it has a huge effect on my art per se, but I do think I do think it's worth it to travel. I think you get these perspectives that you can't get otherwise. Like I don't think you could get from watching a travel show. Okay. Um I think just seeing how other cultures operate. I think it I don't know, just as a kid at least, like you know, I was still 19, I needed I needed to see that there was a life away from Chai Lai round here.

SPEAKER_06 11:45

I guess so. Yeah. That is so cool. Well, tell us how did you develop this style? Like it just like not what not you found, I'm saying I think you should stick with it. I think it's great.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

But um, you can even if you dig deep in my Instagram, I've gone all over the place with styles, like my stuff originally. I was doing these double exposure um photos that were, you know, I was I was more photo-based, and that turned into these like photo-manipulated collages. I found I found a bunch of or I was given a bunch of um slides from an estate sale of this these families. I don't know who they are, which I felt a little invasive, I guess, on my part, but I kind of just went in and altered these um drawings after scanning them in, and they're they end up being kind of fun and also like have a little bit of like a story. Oh yeah, just from looking at them, they're they'll they're kind of strange. And um, I've always liked watercolor painting, and during COVID, um, I just started like making blobs on paper and doing some of the wet and wet stuff that I was actually taught in high school, not so much in college. Um and then I just kept going with it and sharing it and was surprised like how much people seem to connect to it.

SPEAKER_01 13:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:03

I've done a lot of I've tried and done a lot of things, and I've never had um the uh I guess support I've I've like gotten from people um until I started kind of moving in this direction. And so then um I don't know, I just kept going.

SPEAKER_06 13:20

That's cool. Do you feel like Buffalo has been like a good place to go and like show your work? I mean, some communities it's brutal.

SPEAKER_03 13:28

It has been for me. Um you know, once I really like got going and was really like making a lot of stuff, there there's so many people that are supportive.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

Um and I've talked to some people in Rochester that feel like Buffalo feel the same way about Buffalo not living here, like that it's a lot more supportive of an arts community than some other cities.

SPEAKER_06 13:51

How did you find that? Did was it through fairs or like or how did I find what? How did you find the the uh that support from from Buffalo? Was it by doing gallery shows or going to fairs?

SPEAKER_03 14:01

Yeah, it was like a little stuff at a time. It was like I had one trying to think of the first like opportunity I got. I originally as I was doing these, I got asked to do a show at Duende. There was a gallery.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

Um, and then that curator ended up losing the space, and so I kind of was devastated because I was really excited to you know have a solo show and all the stuff that that meant. But then um Cast Gallery uh reached out to me there in the 500 Sonic building. Okay, and um they kind of scooped up my show, and so I was able to have one there, and so that was my first solo show in like 2022. Um and then after the solo show, I just feel like I've got more opportunities. Like, you know, Buffalo is such a like a small like word-of-mouth city. I feel like people just are like, oh, you should do this or you should try this.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

That's really cool.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

I entered stuff in the hall walls, like group show. I started to you know just find group shows and different things um to get involved with. And um, I always want to say to like new artists, like there are like group shows are a great way to like kind of get your foot in the door. Like, it's yeah. I think so many people wanna be artists, and I was like this too. I understand this because I was like this for so long, but like you just gotta do it, like you just gotta make stuff, and I think it's easy to get in your head and think like, oh, maybe maybe in this many years I'll do this or I'll become this kind of artist, and it's like you just gotta jump in the pool, like you gotta just Yeah, you just gotta you just gotta do it. Make your stuff and share it, and there is like a welcoming community for it. At least I found that to be the case.

SPEAKER_06 15:46

Yeah. I found that the most people in Buffalo are really proud of the arts and music scene that they have that we have here.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Yeah, I've been told it's a like I I've gone to bigger cities and been like wow buffalo's at least art scene in the small part of the city is better. Yeah. Just like Las Vegas. I know it seems like a weird place to like I didn't go there for art, but you know, I snapped into some of the little galleries when I was walking around there and it was just like this, I don't know, we've got better art in Buffalo, I think, for that being a way bigger city, not to shut up Vegas, because or sorry, Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_06 16:26

I'm afraid that you've gone down and not. I uh I would say that Buffalo is you know, it's unique from a lot of the American cities that I've seen, um, in terms of just having art and having people who want to be artists. And at first I thought that would make it very gatekeepy, you know, but then you talk to people who own the galleries like, oh no, no, but like send send stuff in. Like, absolutely, we'd love to go see your work.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

Yeah. I think it's easy to get in your head after like a a rejection here or there and just like throwing the towel. And I really think the biggest thing to do anything that you want to do is like you'd gotta just keep doing it and not worry about feeling rejected because I don't know, I feel like I've fallen on my ass so many times and kind of just got it back up and just moved on to the next thing.

SPEAKER_06 17:18

And what do you think about the the big D, the big the degree? Like, is that really necessary in art, do you think? Or is it I mean it's good to have or I always think it's good to have.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

I wouldn't say it's necessary, but I do think it's nice to have some education in art, like understand like the foundations and some basic art history. Like it it is all it all it is all important whether you do that through a college or you do your own.

SPEAKER_06 17:42

Yeah, I'm trying to do my own research. Like my daughter opened my eyes to Pollock.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Oh, this is so red.

SPEAKER_06 17:48

She's just like, wow, you really feel strongly about this red wall. Yeah, she's like, You gotta go and see how red this is.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

That's really cool too for like how young she is, what she like appreciates.

SPEAKER_06 17:57

She loves that, she loves what looking. I mean, she's taking me to art galleries. She's just like, now what do you see when you see this? Yeah, like maybe the per I'm like, I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

And she's like, Oh, well, you know, it could be the painter was thinking about this, or um I'm not a big believer in following the rules, but I feel like you need to know the rules and you need to know them to break them. And you learn that through if not through education, through learning about other artists and what came before you, and um I I don't really paint in a traditional sense with watercolor. Watercolor tends to be very like usually you go very light layers and a little bit at a time, and you know, I I go really heavy-handed with watercolor, but it's just it works for you. Yeah, but it's like I'm aware that I'm kind of breaking this.

SPEAKER_06 18:45

Well, that's cool because then you can say like, oh yeah, I'm you know, people can say this rules breaking artist is um in Buffalo. Um that's really cool. Um, what w how do you choose your colors in each piece? I I get really, really nerdy when it comes to art, so like I hope you don't mind.

SPEAKER_03 19:03

Um they're pretty intuitive for me. I feel like I have a lot of weak points in art too, but I feel like one strong suit that I do have is like I've always been pretty good with color. Um and just kind of figuring out what colors go together and balance each other. Yeah. I do try to I don't want to say try, but I feel like a lot of mine I c I follow either a a cool or a warm color palette. But then I'll get bored with that and I'll just do whatever that is today.

SPEAKER_06 19:31

Oh geez, that's crazy. Listeners, you should see this. Come to the Heart and Hunt Gallery and eventually it'll be up somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

Yeah, you can walk in anytime that the gallery's open and take a look at the studios.

SPEAKER_06 19:43

Very cool. Oh, although we should talk about that. But first, um, because this is the Buffalo Music Players podcast, it would be remiss for us to not talk about music for a minute. So, um, do you go to shows in in the area at all? Do you Yeah, I do. You see a lot of them uh what what good venues are there out there?

SPEAKER_03 20:01

Um, I've gone to shows at Black Dots.

SPEAKER_06 20:04

Black Dots is what?

SPEAKER_03 20:05

Milky's Duende, I always like. I love it.

SPEAKER_06 20:08

I don't go to Duende nearly enough. I just said there was this giant dog at the silos, and like and I remember seeing it once, and then after that just kind of avoiding it in my in my travels.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

Yeah, are you afraid of dogs?

SPEAKER_06 20:20

I'm not afraid of dogs, but this dog's scared the hell out of me.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

Um I it's a pain it's a pain for me to get there. Um, but I do like Duende. I'm trying to think of different. You know, it used to be it's like it's always changing so quickly. Like Sugar City.

SPEAKER_06 20:35

Sugar City was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

Um I used to go to shows at the hostel a lot. That's not really an option anymore, so it's it's always changing, but I guess the last the last one I went to was Milky's.

SPEAKER_06 20:49

Yeah, Milky's, you know, I gotta say that while it was the Elmwood Lounge, it was a fairly strange place to be.

SPEAKER_03 20:54

It is a strange place.

SPEAKER_06 20:55

It was a strange place to be, and then when Lance died, I thought that was it.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:59

And then it reopened as Milky's, and I I didn't want to go to it at all. But then I got a new owner, and somebody convinced me, it might have been Max, convinced me to go to Milky's, and I was like, this is much better. Yeah. And you have food.

SPEAKER_03 21:15

It's got some cool little murals on the wall. Yeah, it's really but it's still Milky's. Like I looked, I've had my head in the window the other day, and I was like, no, it's still got the Milky's crowd, you know, on a Milky's crowd on a music night, which is good to see.

SPEAKER_06 21:28

It's like yeah fun. I don't know. There was something wrong with the writing lighting for just a quick minute there that I was just like, I don't know if I if I feel comfortable in this space.

SPEAKER_03 21:36

I do like a dim lighting, I don't want a harsh lighting.

SPEAKER_06 21:39

Yeah, it was something with the with the with the lighting on stage or something like that. I don't know. But now I love it. Now I love going there as many times as I can. I usually go to Amy's place though.

SPEAKER_03 21:48

If you love Amy's place.

SPEAKER_06 21:49

Yeah. It's just closer to me.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

Yeah, so I think we're in like different sides of town.

SPEAKER_06 21:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:54

But I'll I'll go out of my way if there's something I really want to see. I think the last show I went to was um Passed Out.

SPEAKER_06 22:00

Oh, passed out. They were great. They were on the um the BNP podcast. Oh, good. Yep. We went to their um their showroom.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

And um I designed their t-shirt for their last album. Oh no. Yeah, so there's a little, I don't know how to explain it. There's like a little creature cityscape on it.

SPEAKER_06 22:17

Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, they have um what uh they just released a two albums. The new one, newest one, and then like one of their older ones was re-released.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

I saw that. Yeah, they're good.

SPEAKER_06 22:28

So um on this on this podcast, just to be clear, we we um we did generally include a showcase of a musician or artist. Oh wow, that is cool. Weird. Wow, you've got like a a niche, like a brand or something like that. Because it's very like I see that, I'm like, yeah, of course, Sarah Jane Barry like like drew that. Um would you like to choose uh an artist, a local artist that you would like to go and have showcased?

SPEAKER_03 22:55

I would say uh Match's laces.

SPEAKER_06 22:58

Match's laces, good choice. Hello. Mike Centil. Is there any particular song that you like?

SPEAKER_03 23:08

I made a little uh video for one of them, but I can't think of the name of it. Hold on, if you don't mind giving me a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_06 23:13

Oh no, don't mind. None at all. Mike Sintel m does a fine job as matches with laces, matches and laces, and um before that was the lead singer for um for the Tins, which was a great band back in the day when Buffalo was young and uh Larkin Square was just barely beginning.

SPEAKER_03 23:35

Alright, we gotta find the song I like. Okay, it is wait for tomorrow.

SPEAKER_06 23:42

Wait for tomorrow. Alright, we will cue that up.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

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SPEAKER_06 25:17

Sarah, it's been great talking to you today. Um maybe you can tell us a little bit what's going on in your life right now with the uh Hunt Gall Hunt uh gallery.

unknown 25:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:26

So um I'm one of six members of the Ninth Coreho or cohort cohort. Cohort, sorry, um of the Hunt residency. There's six of us. Cool. Um part of the residency is like once you've been accepted, we get studio space for six months.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 25:46

Free of cost. And um we have a group show like with all of our work together at the end, so that'll be May 15th. Um, and then every Thursday we have different mentors and different people in the community come in and talk to us, and that's so cool. It's been a cool experience. It almost feels like being in college again, but like a little a little more chill.

SPEAKER_06 26:07

Oh yeah. Yeah, no life-changing um uh circumstances happening here.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

Yeah, I'm not like stressing out about all the debt I'm going in, like it's just yeah, yeah, that that that is an issue. Um But it's been cool. It's it's nice to be able to bounce ideas off of other artists because like we were talking about earlier, like it is kind of lonely being an artist. Like you're in your own head, you're making a lot of your own decisions, and oh yeah, it's nice. Um we've had the little critiques, and it's nice to like just bounce your ideas off of other people that are like-minded, and yeah, like artists are weirdos, and it's nice to, you know, I've had moments where I've looked up and I'm like, it's so nice to be around these people because they get it.

SPEAKER_06 26:52

That is so cool.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 26:54

That's so cool. Yeah, well, I did want to talk about that more. I mean, uh if you're a musician, you have all your bandmates. If you have a writer, if you're a writer, you have your editors. Um, if you are an actor, you can always say, Well, these producers and directors and writers and the staff and the and the the crew and everybody, but like you know, the nothing quite like the artists just kind of like hanging out with their colors. You don't know about them for like just immediately. Um That's cool.

SPEAKER_03 27:24

You get inspiration from like every time I walk in here, Victoria's got a new pill on the wall or like something new. You know, it gets you it gets you motivated to make your own stuff. I remember seeing that and being like, I gotta catch up, like I need to start working.

SPEAKER_06 27:40

Um what kind of conversations do you artists have with each other?

SPEAKER_03 27:44

We talk about each other's work, just how this whole experience has been in general. That's cool. And then just you know, when you spend six months with a bunch of people, you kind of just get to know each other and their quirks and their families and what's going on with them.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

Oh yeah, that's cool.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

Um it's been it's been fun.

SPEAKER_00 28:04

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 28:05

I vaguely knew James, who is in um the studio here and Quincy, but all the other artists are new to me, so that's cool. I get to know them.

SPEAKER_06 28:16

Well, that's about all the time we have today. Um, would you like to say anything else, huh?

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Um just keep doing your thing, other artists, and don't be afraid. Just make sauce to share it.

SPEAKER_06 28:31

Cool. That's the BMP podcast, guys. Have a good one.

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