Has It Always Been Easy to Connect With Yourself? | Sanford Biggers

Sanford Biggers, conceptual artist, reflects on identity, self-knowledge, fatherhood, survival, and the ways living between cultures can reshape how we see ourselves. In this conversation, Sanford speaks about growing into his own sense of self, the defense mechanisms we develop to move through the world, and the responsibility of not passing unnecessary baggage on to the next generation. He also reflects on his years abroad, from Italy to Japan, and on the strange experience of being both hyper-visible and invisible as an African-American outside the United States. The question: “Has it always been easy to connect with yourself?” Five Minutes Between Worlds is a series of intimate conversations created and curated by Ricardo Vita. Rare Human Conversations. French • Portuguese • English. Instagram: @fiveminutesbetweenworlds Sanford Biggers: @sanfordbiggers Photographs courtesy of sanfordbiggers.com #FiveMinutesBetweenWorlds #SanfordBiggers #RareHumanConversations #RicardoVita