Finding Your Creative Voice Through Clay with Mariana Mae [episode 13]
Video coming soon!
Mariana Mae is an artist and visionary native to Coyoacan, DF, Mexico. Mariana offers her work under the wingspan of Easy To Breathe, locally in the Valley of Ojai, California. Since 2015, she’s shared her clay work, cultural, educational offerings, and series of women’s workshops and ceremonial gatherings intimately and globally. Mariana’s work is anchored in the heart of expression, empowerment, ethnicity, and ethics in our own creative understanding and acceptance of Self.
You’ll love Mariana’s way of gentleness, softness, and beauty in the world as she does big work in a radically different way than the mainstream.
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LISTEN TO HEAR:
Discerning between the external noise and your internal truth
The medicine of culture shock from moving internationally as a kid
Overcoming shyness and finding your voice through creative expression
How Mariana first found the magic of clay at age 7
Receiving the messages of the earth through the elements
Mariana’s creative process & overcoming attachment to outcomes
Co-creating with the divine, soil, fire, water, and air to create art and usable vessels of pottery
Growing up in a Catholic household and then leaving religion
Going back to the womb of the mother, listening to the elements, and being guided by elders in temazcal (sweatlodge)
Walking softly with beauty as a way of life
How her project documenting indigenous women and traditions around the world was born
Harvesting and processing clay in the traditional way in Morocco with an elder woman
How trusting her gut prepared her to document an unexpected indigenous potter in the Amazon
The reality of privilege in the western world
Finding stillness and re-evaluating what matters during this pandemic time
What’s going to happen after this, from the work that you’re doing now?
The responsibility of being obedient, even as a rebel soul
Being servants and supporters of each other and the earth
Communicating across languages using the sounds of how clay speaks
Bonus Secret Episode! Mariana Mae on the birth of her pottery business, Easy To Breathe, and how it evolved from a side-gig in a garage to a full-time thing at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.
Links:
Learn more about Mariana’s offerings and shop her clay creations at www.easytobreathe.com
Mariana on Instagram @easytobreathe // https://www.instagram.com/easytobreathe
Mariana’s documentary project // www.sermujer.co
Share your biggest challenge around finding and expressing your voice // https://www.earthspeak.love/voice
References:
Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/
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