INTERVIEWS WITH THE DIVERGENTE
The Practice of Living True
by Milo de Prieto
These interviews gather artists who are actively shaping coherence in their own lives and practices. Each conversation is a glimpse into the practice of living true—the discipline of turning experience, divergence, and imagination into forms that hold meaning. These artists are not performing authenticity; they are building it, one choice, one gesture, one work at a time.
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Gabriel Ribeiro
exploration and expression through touch and ambiguity
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Filippo Ioco
celebrating human form, color, and others
socio-sexual Filippo Ioco talks about bodies the way other artists talk about paint: as the original canvas, the first architecture of human expression. His path into art began as a child who couldn’t speak the language of his new country and turned to drawing as communication. The body became his grammar long before he ever […]
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Jaime Liebermann
creativity, curiosity, light, and cuisine
socio-sexual Jaime Leibermann didn’t set out to become a chef, or a photographer. He simply followed the points of ignition in his life: curiosity, light, and the desire to create something that felt true. His path into cuisine began almost by accident, pulled forward by a friend and pushed by circumstance. He struggled at first, […]
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Rithika Merchant
exploring and creating multilayered myths
gender Rithika Merchant’s art begins in her hands. She grew up reaching into the world, into honey jars, into mud, into anything that let her feel the truth of the material. Curiosity for her was never abstract; it was tactile, direct, and driven by the need to understand substances by touching them. That instinct became […]
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David Callau Gené
the life of an artist
socio-sexual David Callau Gené speaks about his life as if he has lived several, each one forcing him closer to the truth he can no longer avoid. Raised in the mountains by grandparents who taught him to invent, build, and transform raw nature into possibility, he learned early that his path would never resemble the […]
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Adrian Blanco
art from blood
socio-sexual Contemporary music isn’t a style for him so much as a vital organ. In Art from Blood, this young pianist opens up his creative physiology: why each work feels like an act of sacrifice, why part of him “dies” with every piece he performs, and why he refuses to separate music from the bodily […]
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William Lu
Still
socio-sexual William Lu’s Still emerges from a crisis of disconnection, not in the world, but within dance itself. He found himself drifting away from performances that felt sealed off from life, too abstract to touch, too committed to “high art” to make room for the people watching. Authenticity arrived for him as a question: What […]
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Karis Kizito-Mcparland
human geometry
gender Karis Kizito-McParland (aka Upton) speaks about drawing as if it were a biological function, something she has always done, something she never had to learn to want. Painting came later, almost by accident, as a way of discovering what her lifelong lines would become when given color, density, and scale. But the core of […]
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Susan Klienberg
Tierra Sin Males
gender Susan Kleinberg’s Tierra Sin Males is an animation built out of contradiction: a digitally generated glass sphere rolling with impossible tension, and a soundtrack pulled entirely from the real world. The image is synthetic; the resonance is bodily. That pairing is deliberate. Her mentor John Cage taught her that every organ vibrates at its […]