Suleika Jaouad
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1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
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And I think that's why I've been so drawn to journaling my entire life because it is this low stakes private container that's not for public consumption.
That's not about being a good writer or a good drawer.
It's just about pure expression.
Yeah.
And it doesn't have to be grammatical writing.
You don't have to be a trained artist.
It's just about enjoying the process.
And I think it's so hard to do that, especially as we get older.
And especially in a culture that is obsessed with productivity and a specific definition of success.
And so for me to start painting at 33, I wanted...
in that time in my life to have something that wasn't about being good and to have the permission to be a bad artist and to make something without a goal in mind, but to do it with rigor.
When I started painting more intensely, I had this opportunity two summers ago to have an exhibit.
It was actually a joint exhibit with my mom, and it was called The Alchemy of Blood.
And the head of the museum asked me if I wanted to sell my paintings, and I thought about it.
And I realized I did not want to sell my paintings because I didn't want to be painting through the lens of capitalism, of is this a sellable good?
Is this something that I can attach a price tag to?
And what should the price tag be?
I really wanted to preserve and reclaim that.
that part of my creative process as something I was just doing for myself without any sort of external or self-imposed expectation attached to it.
And I realized, you know, it's not always possible.
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