{"id":1479,"date":"2017-01-25T16:46:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:12:09","slug":"artists-qa-kristin-barron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/it\/artists-qa-kristin-barron\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Q&#038;A: Kristin Barron"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1498\" class=\"wp-content-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1498 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Artists-Kristin-Barron-1024x680.png\" alt=\"Artists Kristin Barron\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>QUESTIONS BY: Monica Khemsurov (Sight Unseen)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWERED BY: Kristin Barron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDITED BY: Monica Khemsurov<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you live \u2014 and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nBetween Idyllwild and Los Angeles, CA. The former for the wild nature, the latter because I am a gemini.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What inspired you to become a designer?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe creative process has always been a place where I can consistently make meaning. That always kept me coming back for more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s your creative idol?<\/strong><br \/>\nAlejandro Jodorowsky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the first thing you ever made?<\/strong><br \/>\nI can\u2019t recall the very first, it was too many moons ago. I did make a lot of miniature dioramas when I was young. I was obsessed with making miniature things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the last thing you made before coming here?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have been working on large scale sculptural bronze lighting for Design Miami\/Basel based on a dream about a melting cathedral.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three key items you brought with you to the Villa:<\/strong><br \/>\nMyriad teas, an overnight bag, and a journal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What material, idea, or process did you come here hoping to explore?<\/strong><br \/>\nHot- and cold-working metals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What material, idea, or process did you end up exploring unexpectedly?<\/strong><br \/>\nCeramic slab building and marble fabrication.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How does what you made at the Villa relate to your larger body of work?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt marked the revisitation of clay in my practice and the beginning exploration of a flood dream series. I keep a dream journal and the dream I am exploring right now is about an immense flood. The objects I worked on at the villa are fragments and remnants from that flood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will you be leaving behind at the Villa when you go?<\/strong><br \/>\nA set of marble objects inspired by the flood dream.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will you be taking back home with you?<\/strong><br \/>\nMaquette studies of dream objects, which I will develop further in my studio at home. These studies will likely become large-scale lighting pieces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite place or object you found at the Villa:<\/strong><br \/>\nQuimby, our mischievous studio lizard, and hearing the wild boars snorting in the bushes while walking home from the studio at night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most inspiring person you met at the Villa:<\/strong><br \/>\nPaul, who works in the garden \u2014 he grew plants from the goji berries in my museli. Super magic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top tips you\u2019d give someone coming to the Villa for the first time:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Indulge in the specificity of this place.<br \/>\n2. Bring\/borrow\/steal a car, a plane, a train. There is much to explore nearby.<br \/>\n3. Night safari. (You will understand when you come here.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favorite place to visit close to the Villa:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Brion family chapel by Carlo Scarpa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nature is<\/strong> coming home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUESTIONS BY: Monica Khemsurov (Sight Unseen) ANSWERED BY: Kristin Barron EDITED BY: Monica Khemsurov Where do you live \u2014 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-life"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Artists Q&amp;A: Kristin Barron - Villa Lena<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villa-lena.it\/artists-qa-kristin-barron\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Artists Q&amp;A: Kristin Barron - 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