025 ✿ Healing Through Art and Creating Intentional Media ft. Jasdeep Kang (@jakariwing)

025 ✿ Healing Through Art and Creating Intentional Media ft. Jasdeep Kang (@jakariwing)

For today’s episode I had the opportunity to speak with the amazing, multi-talented artist, Jasdeep Kang. Jasdeep is a queer Punjabi American artist who works with film, photography, and music. They practice their art with the ”intention of cultivating joy, care and fantasy for the earth and underrepresented communities” (Jasdeep Kang). Past clients include Mitski, Snapchat, HBOmax, and Times Square Arts. We talked about creative burnout and how Jasdeep is working on prioritizing her wellness in her art practice, to language and creating new meanings as first generation Americans, the connection between her creative outlets and spirituality, and more.

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Topics discussed:

-Jasdeep introduces herself and what she does

-How Jasdeep started freelancing

-The power of media and being an intentional voice in media

-Experiencing creative burnout

-Approaching work and creativity differently

-Phiran Wali - a pivotal experimental film by Jasdeep

-All of the themes Jasdeep explored in that film - queerness, culture, language, connection to land, and more

-Language and creating new meanings as a first generation American

-The culture of burnout ingrained within the filmmaking industry

-Pivoting the way she works and what she offers

-Exploring what excites her

-The relationship between their creative practice and spiritual practice

-Having spiritual connections

-Harnessing our voices as healing

-Ancestral connections and connection to land

-The learning ground of dreams

-Ancestral work, intergenerational trauma and healing through art

-A special film camera Jasdeep has

-Moving to Brooklyn and exploring through photography

-Channeling spiritual connections with this camera

-The camera breaking and grieving it

-What Jasdeep does to prioritize her wellness

-Resources Jasdeep recommends:

-Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

-Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

-Affirmations for Artists video by Janelle Costa 

-What Jasdeep does for fun

Jasdeep's website: https://www.jasdeepkang.com/

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