Stephanie Mann: 2013 Scholar

  • How did the experience affect you as an individual? The time to breathe, notice and slow down after a season...
    Stephanie Mann, Still Life with Pink Beans, film still. RSA collection.

    How did the experience affect you as an individual?

    The time to breathe, notice and slow down after a season of high paced academic rigour was really appreciated. 

     

    What was the impact on your practice?

    I began writing in Florence, which has continued to form a fundamental part of my practice. I still think of the River Arno and how it reflected the sky at night.
  • What would you say the long term impact has been on yourself and you work? I have a bolder appreciation...
    Stephanie Mann and Faith Limbrick, Early Terrazzo, digital print on silk twill 2018.

    What would you say the long term impact has been on yourself and you work?

    I have a bolder appreciation for the necessity of boredom. To spend time with no responsibilities (besides determining whether I was having pizza or pasta for dinner) allowed me to move forward in thoughts in a way that is difficult otherwise. Remembering being there reminds me to make space. 
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