Intro music0:17 - Podcast introduction0:35 - Marcela Flórido biography and upcoming2:07 - Beginning2:41 - Nearby the studio4:01 - Interacting with people and the studio4:38 - Marcela’s experience at the studio towards beginning of COVID5:50 - Community at the studio6:59 - Living in New York as an artist8:03 - What have you been working on at home?8:12 - Exhibitions re-scheduled9:19 - Exhibition deadlines10:31 - Freedom to experiment and part-time11:42 - New York hustle12:07 - How has your work been affected by the pandemic?14:33 - What kind of materials do you use for the drawings?16:43 - Working with scale18:49 - Growing up practicing ballet22:26 - Beginning of body awareness and femininity in Marcela’s painting25:47 - After ballet26:35 - When did you know you wanted to be an artist?29:20 - Studio ritual31:00 - Schedule for studio time33:32 - Reflecting on silver lining of pandemic36:16 - Production of work and creation37:53 - Identity of the figures in Marcela’s paintings42:58 - The meaning of the paintings44:57 - Vulnerability in the studio48:13 - Sharing past studio in London50:15 - Resetting at studio51:13 - Have you made night paintings? Experiences at Yale53:06 - Brazilian museums and the arts growing up54:46 - Censorship in Brazil55:21 - São Paulo cultural capital56:50 - Marcela recent trip back home and the Amazon57:46 - Painting flora and home environment59:01 - Brazilian landscape and exoticism1:01:26 - Integration and relation of plant life with the figures and landscape in Marcela’s paintings1:02:43 - Being an immigrant and remembering home1:03:55 - Dreaming about home1:04:51 - Immigrant story within the work1:06:18 - Being a Brazilian artist-background in British painting and Latin American art history1:10:26 - Thank you!