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Interview with: Talty.

Please tell us about yourself.

Hi I’m Talty! I’m a 25 years old and I live in Mexico. I’m a chemist, and I’m about to start my master studies in materials science. I like to describe myself as a girl that likes to play with dough, sometimes it’s edible (food), sometimes it is not (polymer clay miniatures) and sometimes it’s highly toxic (the polymers I synthesize). Oh and I also love cats!

I’ve noticed a lot of your artwork has to do with food. So I was wondering, why do you prefer it?

Food is a really big deal in my family. My mom is the best cook I know, and I remember asking her to teach me how to cook before I even learned to write. It didn’t happen of course, but she did teach me once I grew up. We spend a lot of wonderful times cooking together, and later sharing the food with the rest of my family. So as I said, food is a big deal! So I’ve always felt attracted to all aspects of food, and after I learned that there were people doing miniature versions of food, I had to try it myself. It was too cute and interesting to resist!

Also, I seem to have a clinical inability to do anything else (Me + figurines = failure).

How much time do you commit to one of your art pieces?

That really depends, and most of the times it’s hard to know. I usually work in several projects at once, and I complete the steps in different time periods. I also have the bad habit of experimenting new techniques all the time and over-complicating everything, so that makes for very irregular working times. I hardly ever made something in the same way twice, I’m always changing the way I do everything. A simple charm can take me 10 minutes to finish, but I also work for several days on more complicated pieces (My boyfriend says sometimes up to 70 hours).

Do you admire any artist? And why?

Many!!! I feel a lot of respect and admiration for a lot of artists, and they also inspire me to improve to be worthy enough to show them my work. *chat-noir was the first I saw making food miniatures, so you can blame her for having to deal with me. To name a few, I admire the work of Cindy Teh (~Snowfern), Stella (*thinkpastel), Stéphanie Kilgast (~PetitPlat), Betsy Niederer and (*fairchildart). There’s many more, but I can’t name them all right now.

What are your future plans for your art? Do you see it evolving further?

I want to keep improving. Last year I opened my store and that has really pushed me to get better and learn how to manage a small business. There’s so many things I still want to learn and miniatures I want to make! But I would like to keep it relatively small, college is still my top priority.

In the very far future, I would like to use everything I learn about the craft and materials science to make my own brand of super quality polymer clay. But that’s just a wild (fun and exciting) dream right now.

Do you have any additional information that you would like to share?

I think that this is a very fulfilling activity, and it has helped me in many ways. Creating something with your own hands from scratch is a very powerful gift, and it has made marvels for my self-esteem. So I highly recommend it!

And adopt pets whenever possible, please don’t buy pets, rescuing a pet is the most wonderful feeling and they will always be thankful.   

Well, thank you for join us on Artist Outlook: Craft. We appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedule! (:

Thanks for this opportunity and I hope that is what you were looking for :)

Contact Information:

• Gallery: talty.deviantart.com
• Store: etsy.com/shop/Taltybit