Bodies in Flux: Self-Portraiture Outside the Canvas ​is a podcast episode with visual artist Saya Woolfalk. Saya describes her self-portraiture project that unravels the history of stolen stories and identity. Saya guides us to unlearn and re-imagined through her use of unexpected materials incorporating Hudson river school paintings, medicinal plants, and what we don't know about Sojourners Truths' infamous "ain't I a woman speech."
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Saya Woolfalk, Self‑Portrait (Words by Sojourner Truth), 2021 Hand painted stained rice paper, and Bristol paper, Japanese Gold foil paper, watercolor, gouache, Gudy Glue, Acrylic Gel Medium, digital print on Hannemule paper, methyl cellulose, Gum Arabic, Substrate: Nepalese Lhakpa paper chine colled on Arches, 32 x 74 in. (81.28 x 187.96 cm) © Saya Woolfalk Photo by Richard Goodbody

MEET
​THE ARTIST 







Saya Woolfalk is a New York-based visual artist. Her practice is rooted in using science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. Working with a wide range of traditional and new media, Saya creates immersive installations that activate themes of hybridity, technology, and human culture. 
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Find more of Saya's work here: 
http://www.sayawoolfalk.com​

MEET THE
​HOST 


​Wang-Yao (王姚) is an interdisciplinary artist. They are a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania studying Fine Arts and English. You can find them on Instagram @whatisthereeven.

​They had the honor of interviewing Saya Woolfalk who discussed with them Tumbling into Landscape, a beautiful self-portrait project exploring questions of identity and belonging in relationship to land and history. 
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​TAKE A 3D TOUR OF TUMBLING INTO LANDSCAPE:
​https://newarkmuseumart.org/exhibition/woolfalk-landscape/
3-D tour video of Tumbling into Landscape, exhibition by Saya Woolfolk. Courtesy of the The Newark Museum of Art.

CITATIONS OF SOUNDS USED

"Chillin Hard" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
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"Dewdrop Fantasy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
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"Dark Fog" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

​​ "Fluidscape" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Garden Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License 
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“I Walk the City” pcaeldries (https://freesound.org/people/pcaeldries/sounds/103026/) 
Licensed under the Attribution 3.0 License. 
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“Relaxing Forest Birds Chirping in the North Woods” taavhaap (https://freesound.org/people/taavhaap/sounds/528661/) 
Licensed under the Attribution 3.0 License. 
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“Atmospheres from around the world” wielkimi (https://freesound.org/people/wielkimi/sounds/456919/0) 
Licensed under the Attribution 3.0 License. 
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