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Danielle Krysa, whom you might know as the Jeal­ous Cura­tor, has a BFA in Visual Arts, with a focus on paint­ing, print­mak­ing, and art his­tory, as well as a post grad design degree. I spoke with Danielle about her new series, Blush, and about how she bal­ances writ­ing about oth­ers, design work, and her own art­work. In Blush, the girls call back to a time before we traded in the dusty Play­boys for their sleeker online coun­ter­parts. When bud­ding sex­u­al­ity was accessed per­haps by dig­ging through old attics or drug­store racks in search of sexy pho­tos, rather than tap­ping “sex” into a google search bar.

Curbs & Stoops: How do you bal­ance writ­ing about oth­ers and doing your own work? I some­times find that I wish I was focus­ing on one or the other, yet also that this enriches my per­sonal work immensely. How do you cre­ate time for each?

Danielle: I wish I could get a few more hours in the day — that would def­i­nitely help! I spend a lot more time on The Jeal­ous Cura­tor than I do on my own work, but in the last year I’ve been try­ing really hard to carve out time for myself (usu­ally late at night). Find­ing amaz­ing work to post every­day has def­i­nitely inspired me to spend more time in the stu­dio, and hon­estly I feel bet­ter (more com­plete) when I’m mak­ing stuff. I’ve been like that since I was a lit­tle kid.

Curbs: Tell me about your new series. Do you always involve such per­sonal con­tent? How did you decide to do this series?

Danielle: Ha! Yes, but not usu­ally this much per­sonal con­tent! I do like using per­sonal ref­er­ences though, because then the work means more to me. This series, titled “Blush”, was actu­ally just meant for myself until Kate at Buy Some Damn Art got her hands on it. I’ve had this idea about the col­li­sion of inno­cence and sex­u­al­ity rolling around in my head for about five years or so, but I wasn’t sure how to rep­re­sent it visu­ally until a few months ago. I tried a few dif­fer­ent ways, and it was never quite right until I decided to share my own story. Let’s just say I was in my early teens when a cute boy who loved KISS came knock­ing. At the time it was “like totally awe­some”, but look­ing back as an adult I think it’s kinda crazy that while I was still totally into col­lect­ing sparkly rain­bow stick­ers, I was also mak­ing out as “Love Gun” blared in the background!

Curbs: What do you think about inno­cence and sex­ual curios­ity? Any thoughts on how that ties into music now, or pop culture?

Danielle: Oh, I could get in a lot of trou­ble answer­ing this one, but… I think it’s human nature to be curi­ous when you’re young. Yes, cur­rent pop cul­ture has all sorts of influ­ences, but I had Madonna rolling around on the floor singing about “being touched for the very first time” and I turned out okay. Every­one is going to have their own expe­ri­ences. Let’s just hope that most of them are positive.

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