Natasha May Platt on Meditation, Painting Flowers, and Pleasure - Ep 05
ON THIS EPISODE
This week on First Coat we have Natasha May Platt. Natasha is a mural artist based in Bushwick, New York City. She’s painted murals all over the world, but I first met Natasha from one of her murals in the Lower East Side. I spoke with Natasha about meditation, her new approach to finding clients, and the importance of saying yes. You’ll learn how Natasha feels about contracts, how she’s diversifying her income stream, and how she rejuvenates her body.
Read the full transcript here.
This interview was recorded in May 2020.
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LINKS
Natasha’s YouTube Channel Surface of Beauty
Natasha’s video on meditation
Palace Walk (Arabic title بين القصرين) by Naguib Mahfouz
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Natasha’s mural at Yumi Kim
Natasha’s viral TikTok video on YouTube
Natasha’s video: How I became a full-time artist, and made 6 figures in the first year!
Guest | Natasha May Platt, Artist
Natasha May Platt is a mural artist based in New York, known as @surfaceofbeauty on Instagram. She has a BA in philosophy and religion from Harvard College and received the 2010 Gardner Fellowship for a year of international creative exploration after graduation. Her fellowship led her to the embroidery and textile traditions of Kolkata, India, and she spent three years in Kolkata studying and working in textile design.
Her mural work is influenced by the color and rhythm of textile traditions, as well as her personal connection to nature and meditative states. She has painted murals for Ballston Quarter Mall in Virginia, Freeform media in LA, Governors Ball Music Festival, as well as murals in Mexico, Bali, and India. Most of her murals are found in New York City, where she has painted for the non-profit Lower East Side 100 Gates Project, and received a Department of Education Grant for a large-scale community school mural, as well as for numerous private clients including fashion brands, hotels, and restaurants.
Follow Natasha on Instagram (@surfaceofbeauty, #surfaceofbeauty), YouTube, TikTok, and check out her website.
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