#467: Dustin Yellin on Making Art, Weaving Madness, and Forging Your Own Path

Hello, boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world class performers, interview people from all different disciplines to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, et cetera, that you can use. My guest today is a madman. Dustin. Yellin. And you may not have heard this name, but by the end of this conversation you'll definitely look him up. Dustin Yellen, Y-E-L-L-I-N, on Instagram at Dustin Yellen, is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founder and director of Pioneer Works, a multidisciplinary cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world.

It's a beautiful, beautiful facility. So If and when you can check it out, I highly recommend. He and his incredible work have been featured by media and organizations worldwide, including the New York Times. Art Forum, Vanity Fair, and TED. Okay, so here we go. The next paragraph will make a lot more sense if you first go to DustinYellen.com and look at psychogeography. Or Google Dustin Yellen psycho geography and look at the images.

That all having been said. Drawing on both modernism and the sacred tradition of hinter glass painting, Yellen primarily works through a unique form of three dimensional photo montage in which paint and images clipped from various print media are embedded within laminated glass sheets to form grand pictographic allegories, which Dustin calls frozen cinema. But wait, there's more. These totemic and kaleidoscopic works often plumb the history and fate of human consciousness within the Anthropocene. Again.

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