Where Art and Cycling Meet with Contemporary Artist Zio Ziegler

It's interesting because, you know, I started, I'm a photographer.

And when I was, I started out, but I started out, you know, in art school, like yourself, art history, but then I had a concentration of photography.

And, you know, my dream was to be a street photographer.

And I did that for many years.

And I exhibited at a gallery in Paris for a while.

And when I was doing street photography, you know, we would go out and You know, I would take six rolls of film.

This is back on the film days, right? Six rolls of film.

And, you know, if I got one or two pictures that day I was really proud of, that meant a lot.

And those are like still today some of the pictures I'm most proud of.

As the journalism, the photojournalism took over, I had to be producing like at a much higher consistency level.

And, you know, it wasn't like one or two pictures a frame.

It was like you got to come back today with 20 winners.

um and it's a whole different game but when i look back on my work some of the stuff i'm most proud of is some of those ones that took you know my books or my own exhibit would take five or eight years to build it's just a whole different a whole different uh thing so that what you were saying really resonates for me and now as i looked at your work um and uh over the last few days, one of the things that seems to, that resonated was your desire to sometimes to pull back and reduce and kind of slow down.

I'm thinking actually some of your more contemporary bodies of works, like the body of work you did on, I believe it was trees, which I think is really tremendous.

And to sort of distill, as you were saying.

So I really, that really responds to me.

I think it responds to a lot of people on a lot of different levels.

I mean, just on a very different level.

I mean, the move to go back to vinyl or to film, you know, to slow down, to take time to listen to a full album instead of just like click, click, boom, boom, right? So I think you've hit the nerve of something that is a real need on, you know, in human existence today.

Well, thank you very much.

I mean, the tree show is a funny one because I definitely like this lower time preference language around things.

I definitely find myself craving sort of a sense of detachment from like the pacing of phones and Internet when I can.

And.

the preservation of my attention span through long audio books or just longer and indulgent rides.

And this is where I think there's a bit of overlap between cycling and painting.