2017-11-20
1 小时 4 分钟I felt like I was in hell.
It was profoundly isolating, and I felt like I was experiencing kind of a room of life.
Like, if life is a house, there's this room, like, in the basement that you know is there, but you might go down and tiptoe and look in sometimes, and you'll close the door and run upstairs.
And I was living in that room.
So today's guest, Mari Andrew, is a full time illustrator and author who came to her art and her work and her commentary on sort of the human condition later in life.
She actually started doing it on the side as a way to pull her out of a really dark place after a very big personal loss.
And over a period of years, that sort of form of therapy turned into something that gained a global following and became her profession.
She now actually shares her art on a daily basis on her Instagram account, among other places.
You can find her, actually, at Marianju, and we'll, of course, include a link in the show notes to that.
And really excited to dive into the story where she came up, how she spent her life navigating between these two.
Two split the practical and the passion, driven and even explored, you know, everything from marketing to theology before landing on what she's up to now and then diving into what really what's driving her at this moment in.
At this season in her life.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So we're hanging out in New York City right now, and I want to dive into the last handful of years because it sounds like it's one adventure piled on top of another adventure on top, another adventure.
But I want to take a step back also.
You grew up in Seattle.
I did.
And it's funny because I've seen you.
I don't remember where I read this, but I remember seeing you write somewhere that you grew up in Seattle, and you kind of looked at New York as, like, somehow that was your place, which is funny for me because I grew up in New York at a time where Seattle was everything.
It was like the heartbeat of music.