{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-charmed-studio.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fagnes-pelton-and-the-pelton-papers-brRHvN9U","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Who Was Agnes Pelton, the Desert Transcendentalist?","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/fd36b0c0-b4a2-4b96-8c20-44d5ba4d7661/bd470fc2-4e6e-4185-a691-8b81b35dd3a5/charmed-studio-podcast.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Do you know Agnes Pelton, the desert transcendentalist who left New York behind to make a life—and an art—entirely her own?\nA modernist painter who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, Pelton eventually settled in the California desert, where her paintings became luminous, spiritual, and deeply connected to nature, solitude, and the unseen. Her life is fascinating not only because of the work she made, but because of the life she chose to make around it.\nIn this episode of The Charmed Studio Podcast, I’m exploring Pelton through Mari Coates’s The Pelton Papers and wondering what her unconventional path might have to teach us now.\nBecause Pelton raises a question that feels surprisingly contemporary: What if we’re measuring our lives with the wrong ruler?\nWe talk about comparison-itis, artistic voice, and our endless measuring of success, beauty, relationships, travel, recognition, and the perfectly curated life. What if a rich creative life doesn’t necessarily look impressive from the outside? What if choosing solitude, mystery, nature, and your own way of seeing is its own kind of success?\nCome spend some time with Agnes Pelton—the remarkable desert artist who chose to see the world on her own terms.\n"}