“‘Too Dangerous, So Unhappy, Perhaps Subsequent Delivery’ was a phrase my mother and father would say every time one thing was out of my management and didn’t go precisely in keeping with plan,” Shyama Golden wrote with reference to her new solo present of the identical identify for PM/AM in London. “It feels to me like a brief phrase that embodies the whole human wrestle, like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the hill.” The Los Angeles-based painter has created a universe the place reincarnation, generational trauma and struggling (and a humorousness to deal with it), Sri Lankan folktales and a private journey via time and the soul’s journey via eras. Golden instructed me she wished to create a works that spoke of “previous lives as a result of this framework challenges the concept of a vital self, a hard and fast historical past, and linear progress.” And so she is creating her personal story, not the subsequent beginning, however this beginning.
On this dialog from The Unibrow’s Radio Juxtapoz podcast, I spoke with Shyama in LA simply earlier than her journey to London, simply after her husband, Paul Trillo, confirmed me an unimaginable AI-generated movie he created together with her that may premiere in brief type on the PM/AM present however will proceed to be labored as an extended work sooner or later. The present is sort of a journey via our collective artistic output: conventional portray, wooden masks co-created with craftsmen in Sri Lanka that harken to centuries previous in addition to a brief movie using AI. It is work for the ages, actually.
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The Unibrow’s Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 164 was recorded in Los Angeles on Could 2, 2025.
