Artist Diaries
Babo 5.19.25
Special | 3m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Enter Babo's fairy lair. A crafted look at local artists, their work and their inner world.
Enter Babo's fairy lair. A crafted, intimate look at local artists, their work and their world. A stylized meditation sharing an artist’s inner monologue, their space and their practice.
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Artist Diaries is a local public television program presented by Twin Cities PBS
Artist Diaries
Babo 5.19.25
Special | 3m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Enter Babo's fairy lair. A crafted, intimate look at local artists, their work and their world. A stylized meditation sharing an artist’s inner monologue, their space and their practice.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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♪ ♪ When I was a kid, I drew all over myself, and on the walls, too.
I never really changed.
Now I just tattoo myself and spray paint the walls.
Magic is very real.
There is like a driving force of magic.
What you see of iridescence, glitter and tinsel.
I want to do anything I can to make that real.
Hyperrealism is just boring to me.
Like, yeah, it's a cool challenge to paint something that looks real, sure.
But I don't know.
There is something about grabbing from pure imagination because there's something inside of all of us worth pulling out.
♪ ♪ I love living in the fantasy cartoon landscape in my brain.
I'm not really trying to impress anyone.
My drag is like reaching into the goblin, as it is like myself and I'm seeing it on my face and it's so joyful.
♪ ♪ My show was about queer friendship, my queer love story, heartbreak, everything.
We all started out as little creatures, and through the trials and tribs, we all found how to grow our own wings.
♪ ♪ There is a world I have created sonically, and it's just ethereal fairy magic.
Music is indescribable because it's invisible.
It's just energy.
I am nearing the end of my Saturn Return and it is hitting me like a truck.
It's sort of like coming home.
Everything's in bloom out of kind of nowhere, and the sun's back and life.
April was such chaos.
I had some crazy housing things I had to deal with and I don't know.
Just the uncertainty and like, actual fear.
And then I would come here every day, and I could just be here when I was feeling insane and just be held by my community.
What is it trying to teach me?
Even though I do crazy things sometimes, mess up, that doesn't make me a bad person.
That doesn't mean I should shame parts of myself.
Because there's just a little beast inside of me that wants to protect my heart.
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