Meet Marisa Rapezzi

We were lucky to catch up with Marisa Rapezzi recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Marisa , appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I definitely gained it from a multitude of places and situations. Living in New York, growing up lower income, training as a dancer through out my childhood. I think most of it comes from my mother. She always encouraged me to go forward with all my creative endeavors and reminds me no matter what happens I will always figure it out.

Also as cheesy as this is (usually the cheesy things are the most true), I think being a creative has provided me an intense resilience. Making and creating has brought me moments of true fulfillment. Just knowing that I have so much more to make- makes waking up everyday more bearable.

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

At times I feel like I do EVERYTHING, lol. My first love was film photography. I find myself still documenting through that medium daily. I recently completed my MFA in Interior Design, which opened my horizons to a many more mediums. However, overall I like to use many different mediums to analyze the way humans are shaped by their environment and record my existence. Currently, I’m working in collaboration to finish a short film started this summer in Finland. This was my first time working with moving images and I’m really excited about how the process is going. Stay tuned.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

1. Openness to new ideas, people, and ways of thinking.
2. Collaboration- we don’t create in a vacuum, working with others has brought out some of the best in me.
3. Kindness to oneself. We are human and we must remember at the end of the day a human made this. We can physically not be perfect.

As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?

One of my all time favorite readings is White by Kenya Hara, specifically Chapter 3 Emptiness. I reference it quite often. There are so many pieces of knowledge from this reading, but my favorite quote is “emptiness does not merely imply simplicity of form, logical so­phistication and the like. Rather, emptiness provides a space within which our imaginations can run free, vastly enriching our powers of perception and our mutual comprehension. Emptiness is this potential.”

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