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\xa0Seattle-based artist and restorer Debra Broz talks about:

Living in Seattle, where she moved to from Los Angeles a year and a half prior to our call; how Seattle is full of rule-followers who are also anarchists/anti-capitalists; how she found her Seattle studio, where it was important to have decent heat, especially for her sculptures; her reasons for leaving L.A. for Seattle, and some of the lifestyle differences between the two cities, and how welcoming Seattle has been to her as a new artist; how various sites, specifically Colossal and the Jealous Curator, have been huge in growing her art & design-focused Instagram followers; her pacing and general approach towards her IG feed, where she\u2019s made peace with the fact that she can only go as fast as she can go, nor does she want to try and gamify the system, and how, ultimately, IG is a \u201cfeel bad machine;\u201d how Instagram has been punishing people who use it to have sales; the \u201censhitification\u201d of apps (including IG and Tik Tok) and how it\u2019s made our experiences on them so much worse; her sculptures, made from ceramic figurines, which were originally made for American middle-class homes; how the best places to find her sculptural elements are \u201cout in the wild,\u201d i.e. thrift stores, as well as friends giving her objects, which is her favorite way to acquire her materials; the \u201cif we look for what we need, we\u2019ll find it\u201d serendipity that\u2019s a driving force in Debra\u2019s making process; and how the meme, \u201cI didn\u2019t realize being an artist was making the same thing 1000 times until you die,\u201d is a sentiment very familiar to most artists.