How Not To Hold On/ Yale Interviews and Resources for Artists - Your Weekly Digest

Published: Sun, 03/29/26

Updated: Mon, 03/30/26

march 29, 2026

How Not To Hold On

by Brainard Carey

Rødland, The First Curtain, 2024-2026

“If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?
-Miranda July, The First Bad Man

We all recognize on some level the plain truth in life that the only constant is change. And yet the vast majority of us spend quite a lot of time and energy trying to hold on, sometimes long past the time when letting go was really our only option. Why is that? Theories abound, and in fact entire philosophies have been built around this very question. Change is hard. The unknown is scary. Sometimes holding onto something, however broken it may be, feels like the safest option even when everyone – including ourselves – knows it’s a lost cause.

Torbjørn Rødland joined us to talk about Bones in the Canal and Other Photographs, his current show at David Kordansky Gallery on view until April 25. Rødland began as a student of photograph in the mid-1990s, working first on the medium format camera before getting to know the large format camera. Throughout his career, and to this day, he has continued working in film, preferring to eschew the digital side of photography. To learn more, listen to the complete interview.

Leonardo Madriz spoke to Praxis about Do Not Be Afraid, his exhibition at Parent Company, running until May 2. The title of the show became inevitable in a way, with Madriz saying that the title settled in and he just had to use it. The phrase serves many meanings, but Madriz is careful to say that as someone who lives a life that is sufficiently spiritually engaged, he believes that the world will do what it needs to do and everything will carry on. To learn about the sculptural works in this show and more, listen to the complete interview.

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