Sabrina Y Smith: Intentor / Curator / Creative Director/ Writer / Chill AF

Sagewolf Interviews

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The scene:
We are sitting in Sabrina’s very jungly living room having tea and rolling cigarettes. She’s so god damn intentional about how she lives that she spends about 5 minutes rolling each ciggy, starting with a very careful spiral roll of the tip filter. I watch in awe and reverence. And then we talk about sex, meditation, fashion - anything and everything. Join us in the jungle of our minds as we discuss the passion not of doing, but of BEING.
Highlights:
+ Aiming to do all life tasks with intention and presence
+ OG New Yorker who grew up in France
+ Lived in LA now for 9 years
+ Algerian mother raised in France as a Muslim
+ Jewish New Yorker father
+ United Colors of Benetton family
+ Close siblings that aren’t blood-related
+ Art: symbolic language, sensory experience, pushing the bounds, living it
+ Storytelling theme - how to connect people and tell their stories
+ Gallery space isn’t made to welcome all kinds of people
+ Art is something that is for everyone, so is nature
+ Being exposed to things early on in life opens doors
+ Art is how language can be nonverbal
+ Used Proust as an interview template
+ Whatever comes out is what gets delivered
+ Becoming a features editor for print
+ Being in a position to give others an opportunity
+ Learning whether you’re big picture or the doer
+ Giving up control and delegating to others
+ Book: The Artist’s Way - a 12 week program
+ The shadow artist operates on the outskirts without vulnerability
+ Getting a sense of self-worth by being of service to others
+ Financial codependence of representing artists
+ Returning to the artistic practices of childhood
+ Creating art for the simple sake of joy
+ Not being able to hide when you write
+ Writing first thing in the morning
+ Monetizing passions
+ Prioritizing a spiritual life - Vipassana meditation practice
+ Intentionally working with purpose-driven companies
+ “We were together, I forget the rest”
+ The ways we show love are our truest passion
+ What do I make when no one is watching?
+ How else do we share outside of social media?
+ Falling out of love with New York, seeking space and light
+ Meeting your life partner in your new city
+ Positive qualities taken to extreme become a hindrance
+ Empathy can show up as codependency or a lack of discernment
+ Reliability and perseverance can also blind you to other opportunities
+ Many obstacles and resistance are good signs to change course
+ Missed opportunities by being too controlling of your path
+ Sabrina’s description of our recent Joshua Tree meditation retreat
+ Learning that our self-reliance can be complimented by community support
+ Younger self: trust yourself and don’t try to please everyone
+ Don’t fuck with it, the web of your life needs everything as it is
+ Finding Alan Watts
A taste:
“How can I keep that sensitivity and yet still self-protect and not lose myself in the pain of another? Because yes I can be there and feel for you and send love to you but I don’t have to get lost in you…self-sacrifice and lose track of my own mission and plan of whatever it is. Getting lost in it doesn’t always necessarily drive to the most clarity action.”
Favorite saying:
“Humans - we suffer because we take too seriously what the gods have made for fun.” - Alan Watts

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