Ep 60: Chiseling Sculptural Narratives: Priyanka Rana's Journey to Artistic Legacy

Atalanta Diaries Breakthrough Women in Conversation with Enma Popli

Born in India in 1980, Priyanka Rana's early inquiries into aesthetics and philosophy and professional work in exhibitions led her to establish a full-time sculpture practice in 2018.

Largely self-taught, Priyanka's experiments with various sculptural materials have led to a nearly singular engagement with untreated wood.

Her practice is rooted in ecology and sustainability, where she works with local trees, transforming naturally felled trunks into abstract sculptures using a range of power tools and chars many of her surfaces, which she likens to "painting with fire."

Living and working in San Francisco, California's Bay Area, Priyankas' work has been shown widely in the region, including at a number of arts festivals and through prestigious and highly visible public art commissions.

Key Themes:

• Understanding one's destiny lines.
• Not getting attached to the outcome
• Embracing freedom with artistic mediums.
• Embracing the wisdom in not always knowing
• Challenging stereotypes and showcasing women's strengths.
• Imparting life lessons, sharing rejections with Kids, and fostering openness.
• Transforming data into narratives, moving beyond mere numbers.
• Labor vs. Brain, discovering meditation in the repetitive, recognizing its meditative quality.
• Seeing tools as Allies, respecting and utilizing tools as powerful assets in the creative process.
• Working with wood is a fascinating relationship akin to nurturing your own pets.
• Trusting the process for scalability, Embracing the journey,
• Sculpting is like farming. You keep at it, and something will come out of it.
• Hold your ground and believe that you can create value.
• Developing a thick skin, embracing diverse opinions.

Connect with Enma Popli on Linkedin:

>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/enmapopli/

Visit Enma Popli's website

>> http://www.enmapopli.com/