Living By Making
A reflective podcast on life as an artist.Conversations and monologues about creativity, money, mental health, addiction, and navigating the art world without losing yourself.
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Who Wants to Buy a Painting of Her Dead Mother? (opens the original)
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B has painted a portrait of her dead mother. Alone in her studio, feverish but not ill, she moves between the painting, an overgrown vegetable garden, unpaid expenses, and the question that keeps returning: what kind of artist is she supposed to be? Meanwhile, Copenhagen is filling up with art fairs, openings, champagne, oysters, gallerists and artists who know how to dress for the occasion. B stays home. Until she gets hungry. A new literary episode of Living by Making about art, ambition, mone
A Woman Called B (opens the original)
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In this episode of Living by Making, I tell the story of a woman called B.B is an artist. She lives in Denmark. She makes things, worries about money, searches for meaning, and tries to understand what it means to build a life around making. But this time, I wanted to tell the story differently. By stepping outside myself and writing in the third person, B became both me and someone I could observe from a distance. This is a story about art, identity, ambition, money, and the strange space betwe
Inherited Stories About Money (opens the original)
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For years, I believed my fear around money came from being an artist. But what if the story began much earlier?In this episode, I reflect on ambition, art, class, family, and the beliefs we inherit without choosing them. Moving between my studio, memories of my parents, and the Danish countryside where I now live, I explore how my father's relationship with work and money quietly became my own—and what it might mean to finally let it go.This is an essay about creativity, inheritance, and the pos
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