00:02Hi, my name is Irene Hof and I'm an artist and a storyteller.
00:11I was always created because I always made drawings when I was small.
00:15But my mom was a nurse.
00:19So she said, maybe that's something for you to become a nurse.
00:22So I studied that for a while, then chose something else and eventually it just came back.
00:26So it's been always in me.
00:29But it's always a very difficult question to think, okay, where was the turning point?
00:34Because I'm completely living off it now.
00:36I didn't even realize it. Now you think like, yeah, I don't know. I think you're in Bali.
00:45Now I can see I'm a storyteller.
00:48So my main subjects are the feminine energy.
00:53Because for me, the world is out of balance with feminine and masculine energy.
00:58Yeah, later on those stories started to come.
01:01Well, I think it also has to do about believing in yourself.
01:05I've had quite a challenging journey, being a single mom of two little girls who are now grown up.
01:11So facing the shadows and walking through the shadows in my life in order to get to the other side.
01:18And I think the more you do that, the more free you become in who you truly are.
01:26So through art, I'm trying to express that.
01:31But also, when I give workshops also, we had a beautiful workshop the other day here at Bali Interior.
01:38I love it when eyes are not straight.
01:41I love it when they look in another direction or have a little quirk in it.
01:47That's the beauty of art. What is the definition of art, seriously?
01:56By giving workshops through finding a bridge between the wisdom that I like to share with the world,
02:04that we all have access to, we all have access to source, we just don't take the time.
02:10It's my next phase where I want to talk more about how amazing people are
02:15and to help them to reconnect and to do and what not to do, to do that.
02:23So yeah, for me, it's one thing now.
02:27I'm still creating art, but that other side of me is becoming equally important.
02:37So AI is a beautiful example for, you know, doing the boring stuff.
02:44But art comes from the soul, can never be replaced.
02:47For me, no.
02:49Because that has mistakes also.
02:50I love, like the other day, a friend of mine said to me,
02:54Oh, I love it when I get an email that has a mistake because I know it's not from AI.
02:59AI will never replace your soul.
03:03It's as smart as it can be.
03:05But the real creativity and the real answers, they come from being in meditation,
03:12and that's what I love about Bali also.
03:14There's a lot of upacharas here, ceremonies here,
03:18because they still connect with source energy.
03:26Why do you think it's art still as relevant as a partner?
03:30Relevant?
03:31Yeah.
03:31Oh, that's a very simple answer.
03:34Because you connect with your soul.
03:36Be cool.
03:37Sorry for everything.
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