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My guest this week is the artist Hannah Faith Yara.

Hannah studied feminism, psychology, and art in college,

and she went on to graduate with a BFA and painting from the University of Georgia

and later moved to New York to put her ideas into paintings. Hannah weaves. of increasingly chaotic paintings. She uses masks from a mix of other cultures to speak to the

different relationships that native tribes and cultures have with the earth and gives anthropomorphic

qualities to the animals to speak their consciousness.

In this episode, Hannah and I talk about some of the opportunities she pursued in the last

years of college and immediately after graduation, with no expectations and no preconceived ideas about what should or shouldn't happen,

Hannah was free to explore past that she might not have otherwise.

Some of Hannah's work is controversial, which is to be expected

when an artist tackles themes like politics, feminism, and the environment head on.

Hannah breaks down one of the more controversial paintings and then we talk

about the memorable responses she's had to her work. Hannah is super curious about

human nature and why we behave the way we do.

These are big, big topics and Hannah digs deep into it with a curious unblinking mind.

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