Artist Talk

Artist Talk

Molly Thunberg and Myles Duncanson

11/27/2018 at 6pm

              Molly is an artist that works in multiple mediums including, woodworking, painting, baking, and food photography. She liked the idea of working in different ways and in different mediums to express her creativity. I loved that she was so open to expressing herself in different ways and straying from the idea of what people typically think of an artist. She gave a beautiful piece of advice revolving around the idea that one doesn’t have to have a degree in the field that they work in to be successful. Although she graduated with an art degree, she worked in restaurants and had time for art where she felt much happier with her life, than when she worked as an architect and actually used her degree.

              Myles is an engineer and loves the idea of functional art, which allowed him to overlap his skills as an artist and engineer. He was also a woodworker, which is how he met Molly. Together they decided they wanted to build a portable tiny house, so they could live in it and travel. They designed the floor plans of the house and bought a school bus as the base of their house. I was amazing to see how they worked through the whole project, troubleshooting problems that other people had never encountered before. With their artistic ability and will to find a way to complete their project, Molly and Myles were extremely inspiring. They were willing to build their own house to utilize their artistic ability and get the house that they wanted.