Show Notes
Lebanese-born artist and architect Jessy Slim turns an everyday ingredient into an unexpected medium: chickpeas. Working with fabric, rope, and metal, she transforms this staple of Lebanese cooking into flowing sculptures that give shape to memory and her connection to home.
In this episode of Full Expression, Jessy joins Dan Imhoff to trace her journey from childhood in Lebanon to architecture and an art practice rooted in experimentation, intuition, and working with her hands. She shares how food and family traditions became part of her creative language, and how a residency at Art Farm in Healdsburg brought a longtime dream to life: a dinner celebrating chickpeas beneath an installation made from the same ingredient.
Their conversation explores the freedom to create without a blueprint, the challenge of balancing art with earning a living, and the ways a familiar food can carry the stories of a place and its people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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