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Midori is a creative, an artist, a sexuality educator and an author. They have posted their TEDx talk that tells you a bit about their journey as an artist. They have a hard time describing their work. They work with any given tools and medium, often in collaboration with other people. If pushed to describe their genre, they’d have describe it as Social Practice. What exactly is this? They create situations where people get to be part of the creation and expression of complex emotions. The official art bio on their portfolio site says:”Midori is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated with giving shape and texture to emotion, memory, desire, beauty, repulsion, collective memory and subconscious revisions of experience….”Their work is mostly about experiences and interaction. You can see their work at www.Ranshin.com Many of their work aren’t “things” that people can buy and hang on the wall. It takes a lot of work behind the scenes, then it’s done in one night – or a few minutes. Much of this they’ve been funding themselves… Yes, this is nuts and not so smart for a smart gal. But they’re possessed by an irrational desire to create. And the results have been received really well. The good news is that more and more of the creative spaces and organizations are giving them the space to engage and create. But they still have to work really hard with their day job (the teaching) to survive. This means their bandwidth becomes seriously limited for art and creative work. Over the past decade, they’ve tried to figure out how to carve out more time out of the day. They’ve been building fantastic people connections for projects. This has been a blessing. But still they’re facing the truth of physics. Time is finite – and so is their creative bandwidth in this time line. In order to realize the amazing new things they have planned, they need to be more sustainable. If not, either these projects will never be created for you to enjoy, or they will burnout trying to make something possible. Neither option is good. They need help. Your help.

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