DMTV Milkshake: Mutuus on Finding the Beauty in Collaboration
Midway through this week?s Milkshake, Kristen Becker impersonates a coho salmon ? and it?s all you need to know about the creativity, improvisation, and well-honed sense of the dramatic integral to the work of Mutuus, the Seattle architecture firm she runs with Saul Becker and Jim Friesz. Mixing disparate backgrounds and talents ? Saul Becker is a fine artist, Kristen Becker in design, theater, and even sci-fi TV ? Mutuus has created scene-stealing, scene-setting work. For proof, see the disco balls and painted unicorns of the Seattle nightclub Supernova ? as they put it, ?Seattle?s most culturally inclusive atmospheric arts and entertainment nightclub.? ?It?s an awesome space,? Kristen Becker says with a laugh. ?It’s so rad ? it’s cooler than us. I mean, all the cool kids go there, dance, and it’s way too late.? """""""""""""""""
In this Milkshake, Saul shares his deeply investigative approach to his work: ?Being an artist has really taught me how to acquire the skills that I don’t have, because I have a really keen understanding of what I’m trying to realize in a project or an artwork,? he says. ?It just seems second nature for me to have to learn a new skill ? these last couple years I’ve taken bronze casting workshops, welding, metalwork. I build a lot of things for our clients, and I’ve had to learn how to do Venetian plaster and metal patinas ...
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