I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today is going to slow more. Today's guest is someone I admire the work of. I don't know if I would call her an artist or an activist or a writer. I don't know. I think her work really

brings your emotions to the forefront in the form of visual art.

She's the British artist Kate Dowdy.

Kate is a visual artist and a writer,

recognized for her work in exploring

and re-evaluating the human experience in the context of their natural world.

Known or her written interventions in public and private spaces,

her work is based mostly on ancient Chinese practices.

She lives and works in London and her observations have fed into an array of artistic disciplines including sound work, film, performance, interactive collaborations,

photography, sculptures. She had many large-scale installations and more recently a book. She exhibits her art worldwide and is also engaged in regular philanthropic and activist commitments.

Kate is also a committed dedicated mother of three and balances her creative chaos

if you want with the discipline of providing the best she could

for her children. As one reviewer stated talking about Kate, much of her artistic work is intended not to survive,

relishing the transitory nature of our experience of this earth, a love of the gesture for its own sake and a

rejection for consumerism. I am a huge fan. I don't know what we're going to talk about today, but I hope you'll enjoy this conversation with the incredible artist Kate Doddy.

So I've been very, very deeply immersed in exploring the feminine side of me and I lived a very a very long part of my life in the masculine

Linear thinking very very disciplined controlling, and so on and so forth.

And one of the areas where I'm actually exploring very heavily is the idea of flow, and basically rather than trying to tame nature into what you

want it to be you actually flow with nature and let it tame you if you want

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