Vesper Stamper: No Time for Shame Part 2 [Eps 24]
“It’s possible that 2020 is the year of the sketch phase.” Author-illustrator Vesper Stamper is the artist of the month. She joins me to talk about embodied art and fighting for joy. She also reads from her new book A Cloud of Outrageous Blue. The premise: a young woman with unique giftings finds herself in the middle of the plague of 1348. Pretty relevant.
We also talk about:
Humanizing others
Why the pandemic didn’t surprise her
Choosing faith over fear
Joy-bringers (like hummingbirds and chickens)
Vesper’s thoughts on embodied art:
…We are creating unto something that other people will encounter and experience, right, so as much as God is creating through us—it really is part of the ministry of reconciliation, you know. We are reconciling the world back to God through these bodies, through what our bodies take in and produce. And that’s so important and that’s something to be embraced and there is no shame in that.
On mindset:
You have the option to not choose fear. You have the option to choose faith, and to choose creativity.
On seeing people as people:
I’m hoping that in pockets that people will feel the gratitude for other human beings and choose to, you know, even if it’s just having another couple over for dinner or taking care of a child or visiting a prison…just in these small ways that maybe nobody ever sees. But in these small ways we can choose humanization for each other.
Find Vesper at VesperStamper.com and on Instagram. She’s also on locals.com and thinkspot.com.
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