Crafting Human™ Podcast
Crafting Human celebrates the creative brilliance of humans and the value of the soulful human touch expressed in the process of making, building and creating. Each week we have conversations with global creatives, makers, artisans, craftsmen, designers and storytellers, and we discuss how their work creates meaningful connections, distinctly shapes cultures and transforms communities & ecosystems. Crafting Human is a quiet resistance to the values of the industrial mindset that erode and devalue humans in the creative process. Through each guest's stories and creative expressions, we restore attention to what cannot be automated: the human hand, the human process, and the human story, which reflect our identity and values, and shape our experiences. We are reclaiming agency, the value of our humanity and the priceless beauty of the "slow" work made with intention and soul.
Crafting Human™ Podcast
Crafting Human™ Ep. 1 | Gabriel Islas on Letting Go To Find Creative Courage & Growth
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On this episode of Crafting Human™, painter and educator Gabriel Islas reflects on plein air painting: working in the landscape where weather, time, discomfort, and imperfection shape both the process and the outcome.
Together, we explore his journey and growth as an artist, which has taught him to trust in the moments and process, even when the scale or stakes felt intimidating.
Crafting Human™ is a space for conversations that go beyond aesthetics to explore what it means to create and cultivate our humanity in a world increasingly shaped by speed and automation.
In this episode:
– Discomfort as a catalyst for creative growth
– Letting go of perfection in the making process
– Presence, imperfection, and working with place
You can explore Gabriel’s work here:
Website: gabrielislasart.com
Instagram: @gabriel_islas_art
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