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In this getting-to-know-you talk with Austin, TX-based artist Kerry Hugins, we discuss: • Kerry’s UV light paintings of flowers • Colors and other aspects of reality that are imperceptible to human senses • Living in Mexico as a child and returning for residencies • The economics of artist residencies • Kerry’s show at LockART House in Lockhart, Texas and her grid paintings • Art as a window into the world through another person’s experience/perspective • Flowers and beauty as legitimate subjects and qualities for artists • Exploring liminal spaces and what science can measure • Lucid dreams and “extrasensory” experiences • Light Pollution, the night sky, and Milky Way origin stories • An ode to Far West Texas and how impactful it has been for both Kerry & Lisa • Finding a place for quiet art in an intense world • The impact of current events in Kerry’s upbringing and how she has integrated it • Art as a mediation and musing on ways to meditate • How conversations have begun to change in recent years • The “Spiritual” in art/life and what that means • Balancing the internal and the external and merging those experiences and how that comes through stylistically • Having more than one style and how that links to the art economy • Showing/not showing work • Diverse incomes sources for artists and taking ownership • The untapped potential of YouTube for artists