
A Love Supreme with Dae Bryant
Talking to Dae feels like rewiring my thoughts. When he described the connection between philosophy and music, I immediately related to his lived experience. He is someone who is creating his own way of living.
Life is art, but how can we live in the world as artists do?
The Artist Life examines the daily realities, challenges, and choices that shape creative practice over time. These stories explore process, vocation, community, resilience, and the many ways artists sustain meaningful lives, bringing art to life and offering examples of how to live in authentic and creative engagement with the world.

Talking to Dae feels like rewiring my thoughts. When he described the connection between philosophy and music, I immediately related to his lived experience. He is someone who is creating his own way of living.

私はスーフィーの旋回グループで、唯一の子どものメンバーになりました。そこで「サマ」に出会いました。「サマ」は「聴くこと」と訳され、私の経験では、より深いつながりを得るために注意を向け直すことを含みます。

自分が作家になりたいと気づいたとき、コミック批評は私が生涯をかけて培ってきた視点の出口となりました。2019年、ダニエル・エルキン、アレックス・ホフマン、ライアン・キャリー、そして私の4人でフィールドマウス・プレス(Fieldmouse Press)を設立しました。
Photo © by CydScottPhotoPaul Hansen is the person who inspired me to explore this theme I call Art of Life. When we last talked on Zoom, he said something that stayed with me: artists have to find their own way to live because no two lives unfold the same way. In this interview, Paul repeated that the essence of life is a long chain of decisions made based on one's own aesthetic sense, and that is what it means to be an artist.

No one ever actually told me how to live as a musician. There are many ways, and you have so much freedom to create your own way. And that’s not easy because the choices are endless. So, I started this series of interviews to ask my friends how they live as artists. This first interview was with Todd Marston, my long-time friend and a keyboard player, composer, and educator.