{"id":619,"date":"2015-11-09T02:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T02:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2015-11-14T20:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T20:32:37","slug":"sacha-mlynek-akin-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/09\/sacha-mlynek-akin-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacha Mlynek – Akin Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacha is different from the other Akin artists I have photographed because she is\u00a0in a state of limbo. Still, she was brave enough to share this part of life as an artist that is rarely talked about:<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t produced anything formal in years. I\u2019m basically on an artist-on-pause.\u201d<\/em>
\n No one really warns you for it or talks about it; this deafening part of the artist life-cycle where you\u2019re not quite an artist and even quite possibly, ugh, a hobbyist. What happens when you aren\u2019t the art-star and you aren\u2019t the super ambitious self-promoter?<\/em>
\n Making images has always worked the best for me when the chord of my theory crossed over the chord of my visual language; as if such a reverberation then manifested into actual motivation. And although what was important for me to say when I was in art school remains important for me to say today, it seems like I can\u2019t be motivated beyond feeling guilty for not working. And the guilt turns into resolute complacency. I mean, I didn\u2019t even notice when the server for my website didn\u2019t auto-renew payments and it was taken over by an e-com site selling hats. So what gives?<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve received all the typical advice: try working on something new, take a class, give yourself deadlines. But, I think this is just something I have to sit through and patiently wait for those two chords to cross over once again.<\/em>
\n–Sacha Mlynek<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sacha Mlynek is an OCAD graduate living and working in Toronto. She travels the world and comes back to make work that explores the internal spaces of her home. The paintings she creates are a discussion of how deeply connected we are to these spaces while home and abroad. Her work is influenced by this dichotomy and the relationship we have to our inside spaces.<\/p>\n

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Sacha is different from the other Akin artists I have photographed because she is\u00a0in a state of limbo. Still, she was brave enough to share this part of life as an artist that is rarely talked about: I haven\u2019t produced anything formal in years. I\u2019m basically on an artist-on-pause.\u201d No one really warns you for it or talks about it; this deafening part of the artist life-cycle where you\u2019re not quite an artist and even quite possibly, ugh, a hobbyist. What happens when you aren\u2019t the art-star and you aren\u2019t the super ambitious self-promoter? Making images has always worked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-akin","category-artists","category-portrait","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dsf4624.jpg?fit=2700%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p62wb0-9Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lennartmaschmeyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}