The Giveaway Draws A Crowd
A giveaway drew an unexpected gallery crowd
Aug 13, 2026 · 29 min · 14 segments
On this week’s episode, host Caryn Antonini is joined by American artist Rob Strati, whose remarkable career has spanned large scale sculptural, installations, intricate digital diagrams, and most…
Robert StratiGuest
Karen AntoniniHost
That's so, it's so interesting because you've worked in different mediums throughout your career or your life.

It's, you know, you have your own free flow and all of that is contributed to where you are today, which is amazing.

And even landing at Daily Harvest and something like maybe completely different or really interesting.

Uh, yeah, I think there's like a flexibility and I noticed that with this work too.

Uh, it's, you know, like the, how you're sort of saying that, um, flowing with things, the way this series of work started was a complete accident.

Um, and so it was, my wife dropped a plate in the kitchen during the pandemic and, uh, It was her mom's that she inherited.

And there was a large fragment that was left behind that we didn't want to throw away for some reason.

We should have thrown it away, but it was big enough and it had some sense of meaning.

I never really noticed the details of the plate until one day I was moving it and I did see a little monk and a bird and a bridge.

and it was pretty clear and it was, it was a very loose sort of flowing vision, but that reminds me of what you're saying and sort of, um, that flexibility.

That's so, it's so interesting because you've worked in different mediums throughout your career or your life.

It's, you know, you have your own free flow and all of that is contributed to where you are today, which is amazing.

And even landing at Daily Harvest and something like maybe completely different or really interesting.

Uh, yeah, I think there's like a flexibility and I noticed that with this work too.

Uh, it's, you know, like the, how you're sort of saying that, um, flowing with things, the way this series of work started was a complete accident.

Um, and so it was, my wife dropped a plate in the kitchen during the pandemic and, uh, It was her mom's that she inherited.

And there was a large fragment that was left behind that we didn't want to throw away for some reason.

We should have thrown it away, but it was big enough and it had some sense of meaning.

I never really noticed the details of the plate until one day I was moving it and I did see a little monk and a bird and a bridge.

and it was pretty clear and it was, it was a very loose sort of flowing vision, but that reminds me of what you're saying and sort of, um, that flexibility.
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The Giveaway Draws A Crowd
A giveaway drew an unexpected gallery crowd
When Plates Become Memories
Plates unlocked stories people carried for years
A Broken Plate Opens Worlds
A broken heirloom launched an artistic universe
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