Encore: Jasmine Dowling: Balancing Art, Life, and the Creative Tightrope

"The more I want the work to be the focus, the more I pull back sharing myself. I want the work to speak." — Jasmine Dowling Welcome to Process: Encore!  In this archive series, we’re spotlighting the foundational conversations that continue to guide our creative community, completely untouched from the day they first aired!  This week, we are taking you back to a hotel room in Brisbane where Arielle sat down with one of Australia’s most distinct creative eyes: multimedia artist in still and motion creation, Jasmine Dowling.  Jasmine has spent over a decade navigating the fragile balance between commercial partnerships with global mainstays like Longchamp, Mecca, Chanel, and Hermès (just to name a few) and the highly intentional, low-fi personal practices that keep her creative spirit alive. In this unfiltered conversation, she opens up about the reality of executing work that is entirely yours. **In this episode:**  - **The 40/30/30 Split:** Balancing unpaid personal exploration, client work, and paid social partnerships. - **The "Slave to the Eye" Paradox:** The endurance required when your hands are working overtime to match the vision in your mind. - **The Low-Fi Medium Strategy:** Ditching the heavy gear to capture her Paris Hermès project via film, a compact Sony, and raw iPhone voice memos. - **The Illusion of "Dream Clients":** The unfiltered reality of navigating heavy corporate bureaucracy and creative revisions. - **The Power of the Gifted Spark:** How unexpected tactile packaging triggers immediate, experimental animation concepts. - **The Boundaries of Curation:** Treating your digital platform strictly as a workspace while fiercely protecting your private family life. <!--THE END--> - **The Forever Fear of Work Disappearing:** Overcoming the anxiety that everything will crumble the moment you set structural boundaries. **Connect with our Guest:** - Jasmine Dowling on Instagram: @jasminedowling - - Studio & Prints: jasminedowling.com **Enjoyed this Encore?**  **Join our Community!** - Your host, Arielle Thomas on Instagram, ⁠@arielle.thomas⁠ - Us, on Instagram, ⁠@processthepodcast - Whatsapp Community @processthepodcast Follow us to get notified every time a new episode drops every Tuesday.  See you on the next one!