Janet Echelman: Sculpting the Impossible
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, host Guy Kawasaki interviews Janet Echelman, an acclaimed sculptor known for her swooping, volumetric artworks made of fiber and suspended at an architectural scale over streets, parks, plazas, and waterways. Echelman traces her journey from studying painting to a turning point where she started working with sculpture using found materials, overcoming numerous obstacles with persistence to create never-before-seen floating artworks that provide peaceful, inspiring havens in the hustle of daily urban life. She also discusses her creative process of developing harmonious, site-specific installations that physically embody her belief that "art can serve as an inspiring voice to bring people together across boundaries of difference. In this episode, Guy also shares the release of his new book, Think Remarkable!
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| 0:00.0 | In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth. |
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| 0:32.9 | are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello, I'm Guy Kawasaki. |
| 0:51.1 | This is the Remarkable People podcast. |
| 0:54.1 | It is March 6, 2024, and today, our new book, |
| 1:00.8 | Think Remarkable, Nine Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference, is now available. |
| 1:08.1 | And so before we get to our guests, the remarkable Janet Echleman, I'm going to play |
| 1:14.2 | the introduction that I read for the audio version of the book. This is about 11 minutes long, |
| 1:21.9 | and then we will get to Janet Echleman, a truly remarkable artist. |
| 1:28.8 | Here comes the introduction. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm Guy Kawasaki, one of the authors of the book that you are listening to. |
| 1:41.1 | The book, of course, is Think Remarkable, Nine Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference. |
| 1:45.0 | I'm going to be reading to you a few sections of the book. |
| 1:48.0 | This is because, quite frankly, |
| 1:52.9 | the professional voice actor Perry Daniels has a better voice, |
| 1:56.3 | but there are some sections that are so intensely personal. |
| 1:59.5 | I thought it would be better if I read them. |
| 2:04.4 | The first section that passes that test is the introduction. |
| 2:08.9 | I begin this introduction with a quote from Anne Frank. |
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