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Bethany Yorgason | Episode 1238
Bethany Yorgason is a ceramic and resin artist inspired by the natural world. With over a decade of experience in pottery and about 5 years with resin, Beth found it so profoundly interesting and amazing to preserve nature through incorporating real flowers, insects, and organic textures into her work. Beth loves creating pieces that are slightly unsettling, but in a way that you can’t help but see the beauty in it —each one completely unique.
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Is there a particular time of day that you feel more creative? Are you a morning person, night person, that kind of thing?
That’s very interesting because I love waking up early, but I feel like my creativity really starts between like 3 P.m. and 7 P.m. I love working in the afternoon, evening.
Is there a specific environment or setting that you need to be able to get the juices going?
Yes. It’s called a clean space, which is really hard as an artist. So anytime I clean up the space, I feel way more creative walking into it. An hour or a day later, I’m just ready to create.
And when you look at yourself, would you use the word creative to describe yourself?
Yes, like I am creative, like as an adjective, yes. I am constantly coming up with ideas of what to make next. And I run into this issue where I actually have way too many ideas that I can never do all of them, but I can only execute one. So it’s really that process of narrowing it down to like what I actually can do that’s really difficult. And yeah, so I definitely think I’m creative and The hard part is actually just deciding what to do.
Do you ever face creative blocks or get stuck?
The only way I get stuck is by not wanting to do something. So that happens with resin A lot. I have to wear a mask. It’s toxic. I have this setup. It’s a lot harder to get started. Once I get started, no issues. It’s the getting started that’s hardest for me, but I wouldn’t say it’s a creativity barrier. I would say it’s like an action barrier.
How does working with your hands kind of different? Does it make you different from people who work with their brains?
I don’t know. I can do, I really can do both. And I’ve seen myself in a lot of different career paths. Math was always probably my favorite subject in school, besides pottery, ceramics. So I kind of tap into both. I don’t know what’s, I can, yeah, how I would say it is I think there’s a way to tap into both in different settings and situations and times of your life. And the last couple of years, I’ve been really able to tap into my creative side. But before that, like no one at my work, I was working a corporate job, would have guessed that I did pottery or resin or pinning spiders because I was very organized, structured, and just detail-oriented. So I have very different sides to me.
When you’re not in the studio making or pouring resin, what’s one of your favorite activities to do?
Those are my main activities. I do love hiking and being outside. I usually say hiking and pottery are basically my life. Resin has become a second to pottery. But if it’s not those two things, then just a different craft. I’m learning how to knit right now on my free time.
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