I didn't have a practice for a year, which was a huge change, and during that time, I didn't have a studio. I had to be present with her pretty much most of the time, so it didn't work for me to rent a space. So I started to think about "how can I change my practice, how can I find a compromise between our life circumstances and things that I love to do"? So I started to do photographs and do videos and in the younger years of my practice, I used to do a lot of prints and zines and work with collage, so I started to think of how that can be part of my practice since it's way more approachable. I can just work from my home, from our living room. I can read -- reading, that was a big part, I started to do reading at home, a lot of theory that I would previously do in the studio as part of my process. Now I started to do that at home, and I can when she's playing or when she's napping, during those moments. It made me prioritize my practice so so much because I just don't have much time now, so all of the free time that I have is so precious, so I try to really think of my time being here [in the studio] as radical self-care - Portrait of Ksenia Kil and Agna, 2025, Oil on canvas, 48" x 60", Photo credit: Marc Bider
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I’m still such a victim of this hierarchical notion of art-making and just being like “no one wants to see me make a sock”. I don’t know! A lot of my stuff is so family orientated. I think about, "What am I doing now? I’m darning socks and knitting sweaters, I want to make a new slip-cover for my couch", it’s all so home and family oriented — is that, is that okay? It’s like, I’m not a man sculpting. Should I be a man sculpting something? - Portrait of Hannah Goodman (Hannah Isolde) and Chloé, 2025, Oil on canvas, 36" x 96", Photo credit: Marc Bider
I'm still such a victim of this hierarchical notion... (Detail)
I'm still such a victim of this hierarchical notion... (Detail)
I feel like the arts works really well with hanging out with a kid. For my practice, my life, it meshed really well with that. But I totally see that my mom being able to mesh something that wasn’t compatible inspired me. And she just had fun with it. But again, my dad was also there and very supportive. So having some kind of supportive other partner, in whatever way that means, physically, just there, is super fucking important Portrait of Molly Bertheaud and Lyra, Oil on canvas, 2026, 78” x 52”
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