Matt Behre is an artist and industrial designer whose creations are often inventions for a future society or at least one who admits its obsession with technology and yet also a desperate desire for objects that mean something in the real world. Often Matt's creations are critical of our virtual addictions, but moreover they are a return to what is needed in our humanity... something tangible and that will not make us have giant thumbs or craned necks. He is concerned with how it all affects our bodies, ecology, and what his creative brain can bring to the table. Matt's art is in the sketches and functional prototypes that he makes that are beautiful in design, but also in their function. He can't help but even imagine how to turn pandemic mask wearing into something that will benefit rather than intrude on nature. He imagines a mask that contains a plant that will feed off of the risky air we put out there. Matt shares his creative mind with us in this episode alongside his path of discovering a career that uses all of his skillsets as an industrial designer. He also joined this recording only a month into his life as a father to his little one- Lucy June. At around minute 40 or so we discuss earnestly how to integrate your creativity into your parenting. Matt's insights into art making, forging a career from a metal tradesman to a designer, how skateboarding relates to Fauvism, and how being who your are leads to all the right doors opening.
