{"id":520,"date":"2021-04-12T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=520"},"modified":"2021-04-12T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T03:30:42","slug":"janicza-bravo-on-self-soothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/regions\/janicza-bravo-on-self-soothing\/","title":{"rendered":"JANICZA BRAVO ON SELF-SOOTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on my movie\u00a0<em>Zola<\/em>\u00a0for almost four years. I think of it as a version of myself, and so, I\u2019m looking forward to its release because I would like to move on to the next chapter of my life and work. It was supposed to be released last year, but was delayed due to the pandemic. I\u2019ve gone through my own period of mourning with it over the last 11 months. But I\u2019m ready to move forward with what\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The television series\u00a0<em><a id=\"auto-tag_law-and-order\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" data-tag=\"law-and-order\">Law and Order<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has so much life in it. Much like rooting fora favorite sports team, I\u2019m particularly jazzed about Sam Waterston, who plays a District Attorney in seasons five through twenty. I discovered the program a few years ago\u2014a very late find\u2014while I was staying at a hotel. I kept it on in the background, and before I knew it, I was seven hours into a marathon. The show is a very formulaic procedural that is half law enforcement, half legal thriller. Each episode starts with the discovery of a crime and ends in a courtroom. I turn it on late at night, as if I\u2019m having a bedtime story read to me before going to sleep. My experience in the pandemic has been extremely insular, and this show feels very stabilizing. While the world is crumbling around us,\u00a0<em>Law and Order<\/em>\u00a0is not.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t often listen to podcasts, but I consistently tune in to\u00a0<em>Talk Easy<\/em>, hosted by Sam Fragoso, for its hearty, curious conversation. I recently listened to an interview with writer George Saunders that really moved me. I had never heard anyone so comfortably admit that he had wanted fame, while recognizing that it wasn\u2019t the healthiest goal. There is shame in wanting that kind of success, but also in believing that it\u2019s what success actually means. Saunders also discusses his children and how having a family made him a better person\u2014a type of conversation that is not often emphasized with men in the same way that it is with women. His immense vulnerability and honesty had me crying by the end.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, a friend sent me the [1981] novel\u00a0<em>Rhinestone Sharecropping<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_bill-gunn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" data-tag=\"bill-gunn\">Bill Gunn<\/a>. The book is about a Black director navigating an opportunity to write a script for a Hollywood studio. I love work about the artistic process, but what struck me the most was that it was the first time I had ever seen a version of myself written about, and it really encapsulates how I have had to pilot those spaces. I saved the last thirty or so pages for a full year because I didn\u2019t want the book to end.<\/p>\n<p>Live Auctioneers is a hub where auction houses and galleries can post items for bid. Having not even been in a grocery store since March 2020, I really miss shopping at markets and pharmacies. I find walking down the harshly lit, organized aisles oddly soothing\u2014even if I don\u2019t want anything\u2014and I increasingly browse liveauctioneers.com as a kind of replacement. In particular, I\u2019m really into the dark side of Americana, such as mammy dolls and Negro paraphernalia. I recognize that they\u2019re part of a very unkind history, but I\u2019m drawn to them. By bringing them into the safe and welcoming environment of my home, I offer them a new kind of resonance.<\/p>\n<p>I just started watching the second season of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\"><em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race UK<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s so theatrical and campy, and the individuals really remind me of the different types of people I encountered in theater school\u2014from the person who wasn\u2019t previously loved to the person who is from a small town to the person who isn\u2019t going to pursue this as a career. In that sense, the characters feel like home. This competition show really transports me to another time in my life, when I was trying to figure out who I was and how I could exist in this new creative community. The series holds space for a lot of lovely, funny, and heartbreaking moments, but is presented with a very bright patina.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on my movie\u00a0Zola\u00a0for almost four years. I think of it as a version of myself, and so, I\u2019m looking forward to its release because I would like to move on to the next chapter of my life and work. 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