Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by writer and artist Lenicia Rouse, I ask her how can we find clarity through art?

Welcome to getting curious this is is Jonathan Van Ness. I am just I don't even know how to find the words of how excited I am for this episode.

Welcome to the show, Lenicia Rouse, who is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Houston, Texas, and this isn't in my paragraph

tree, but I'd be remissed if I didn't say it, whose Instagram is on fire.

It's so good.

It's like one of my absolute favorite favorites

to follow.

Your portfolio includes a range of abstract painting,

photography, teaching, writing, and speaking.

Lenicia, welcome.

Oh, Jee and Jonathan, thank you.

It's so good to be here.

So can I just sit?

This one day I was mining my own business on Instagram.

And I realized that I had been like impulse buying purses

for like the last two years because like I never really had like purse

impulse buying money and then and then I did and then I was like oh my God but then you can only have so many purses and then my husband and I started talking about art and then I was like I am obsessed with art I didn't know it just didn't occur to me that I could afford it for so long so like it takes you a while to figure you know figure stuff out and then I think that that Zuckerberg or something they were

eavesdropping on my Instagram Explorer page because then once I started talking about art there

you were like you were on my explore page and I smashed that follow button and I've never looked back.

I love your work so much and it's so beautiful.

So. so much and it's so beautiful. So how are you? I'm good and I thank you for sharing that because I have been curious about what drew you to art and also how you found me. So that's cool to know.

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