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Michela Roman FEATURED At NYC Culture Club Through Sunday 11/19 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Are not your own, Mikayla Roman and tell us the sculpture was showing in
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  front of her NYC Culture Club. Yeah. So this sculpture is titled Trustpot
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  is a part of my series how Do You Limb? But when you don't
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  know you're playing. I really focus on the motive aspect of the sculpt and
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  what it feels like to have a body rather than just replicating what a body
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  is, OK. And so I do that by manipulating form and sculpting.
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  Intuited. Now you've been doing this for a while now, I'm guessing right,
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  this sculpture about three four years, four years now? I think,
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  yeah, I love it. I mean I sculpt with clay and really twist,
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  like I think, over here you can see how the figures are moving
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  back into the body. Oh I did that. The pedestal itself twists with
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  the twist of the sculptures. So with this season particularly really talking about the
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  union of opposing the actions and that like endless cycle OVERFLA shouldn't how it goes
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  right back into the body but also continues down into the stand as well.
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  So when you make these different sculptures, what what's your thought for us going
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  into It feels like you have a very deep thought process going into these different
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  sculptures. Yeah, well, I mean this body, I mean it's more
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  so. Yes, of course I wanted to be aesthetically pleasing. It's a
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  work of art, but it's more important for me to capture the right emotion
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  that I'm trying to go for. So I typically start with an idea,
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  start with a plan, start sculpting, and a lot. It's rare for
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  it to end up looking like the way it started, and I just kind
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  of if it's feeling right, go with it. And if it's if it's
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  the plan's not feeling right, I almost things around, resculpt things and kind
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  of with your instinct then yeah, definitely. Yeah. Tell me about the
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  exhibits, like, do you do a lot of these different exhibits over the
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  year or is this Yeah, I mean I'm trying to This is my first
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  time showing with NC Culture Club Very Cool, which is an incredible show up
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  right now. So many different artists in the town in one's space is incredible.
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  I have a show up right now in Brooklyn as well. Okay,
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  and I am showing in Chinatown and Longs for a short gallery in December,
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  Nice I dot chick gallery at the end of the month. And now,
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  do you do only sculptures or do you do art? What kind of other
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  art? I started as a painter, Actually I don't typically right now I'm
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  sticking a sculpture and painting my sculptures. I do drawings and paintings as well,
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  but I don't really make those. Now, what's a me and be
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  feature here? Because this is like right in the heart of downtown Manhattan.
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  It's a good ARE exhibit. Yeah, it's so cool to be in the
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  World Trade Center. Like, I've only been in New York for two years,
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  so New York right, Yes, exactly. I'm Canadians, so very
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  Telling family back home that I'm showing Cares is really fun to hear their real
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  and have they come down to see this yet or not? The show?
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  Unfortunately, I did have a good friend from homecome for opening nights, okay,
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  which was great. But yeah, they fund for a few shows last
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  year. So let me ask you about the community, the creative community in
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  New York. I feel like it it bonds together, doesn't it It?
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  Absolutely, It's honest. I think that's one of the things I love about
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  New York. There's so many creatives and there's just so much support I think.
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  I mean, before moving here, I didn't even realize that it was
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  this big of a thing. Yeah, I know it sounds silly, but
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  well, no, I feel because it's such a difference because when you connect
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  with them online, they're just very open and welcoming, you know. I
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  felt that the meat, like mister and Norcy's submaying all those other creatives around
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  the city. So it's just filled and it's it's not filed to the extent
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  that you're exhausted with it. It's just there's so much new things to look
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  at and learn and like hear so many different creatives opinions. Yep, It's
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  something I've never experienced before. With all the trauma we're seeing in the world
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  right now, what role can artists? Can art play and maybe bringing us
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  peace, maybe bringing us some column amongst this chaos right now? Yeah,
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  I mean, I think art is we like, we need art in the
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  world, and I think using art to talk about complex situations and our truths
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  is a way to allow people to hopefully let down a guard and see the
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  word for what it is, see what it's talking about. And approach and
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  artwork with an open mind, the seeing way you should any conversation. And
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  I think it gives a little bit of a leadway and hope for people to
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  see perspectives. One last thing to it's being a perspective. From one angle,
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  he looks strained. From another, he looks relaxed. Is that by
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  design or yeah? Yeah, so I took opposing emotions and I was trying
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  to make them work together. So one angle there you're saying, there he
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  looks a little strange. From here he looks actually kind of relaxed from work
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  exactly. Yeah, I'm I'm glad you could tell that. That's awesome.
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  I'm happy you came through. Yeah, it's I think it's like that subtle
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  uncanny aspect of the piece that And how long do you want to exhibit here?
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  By the way, how long are you on display here? With This
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  show was on Sunday on the So come on down the NYC Culture BBC,
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  MICHAELA and all the great artists. And where can we follow you one Instagram
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  at mikela Roman dot artist dot com. All right, well, thank you,
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  soone, there you go, Thanks so much, thank you