We discussed: - What it means to be a professional artist - Being rediscovered after decades - Everything influences everything - Speaking the language of things - what is art? - the art system - being a late bloomer - the need for time and distance - fleeing communism in 1981 - his connection to nature - including randomness and chance in art making - biointervention art - interspecies art - cult of personality - the algorithm - envying your younger self - viewers being impressed by tediousness - buying immortality   People + Places mentioned: Catacomb saints - https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2020/01/07/divine-inspiration-how-romes-unknown-dead-became-catacomb-saints/ James Hampton - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly - https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/throne-third-heaven-nations-millennium-general-assembly-9897 Pavlína Morganová, Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain - https://www.amazon.com/Czech-Action-Art-Happenings-Performance/dp/802462317X National Film Archive, Czech Republic - https://nfa.cz Gallery1718 - Veronika Holcová, Pavel Hrnčíř - https://www.gallery1718.ca Roman Buxbaum Petr Rezek   People who inspired him: Jiří Kovanda Karel Miler - https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en/miler-karel-1940 Joseph Beuys - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747 Master Theodoric - https://www.malmecc.eu/master-theodoric-court-painter-of-prague/ Dennis Oppenheim - https://www.dennisaoppenheim.org Lucian Freud - https://imma.ie/artists/lucian-freud/ Eva Hesse - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/eva-hesse-1280   Contemporary artist whom he likes: Terry Hoff - http://www.terryhoff.com Ben Schumacher - https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/ben_schumacher   where to look to see his art: http://lumir.ca http://corridor213.ca http://nevan.gallery http://darrengallery.com   Hosted by Matthew Dols