We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Baby Reckless a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Baby , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

Risk-taking and showing up authentically have been so important to my journey, artistic vision, and business. I’ve lived many a life in my few years on this earth but breaking out of the restrictive cages, projections, and ideologies others have placed on me whether it be religious, academic, or social – each time I have chosen myself and stayed true to myself it has always been the best decision. The one that seems to have the biggest impact on me has been leaving a cultic, evangelical religious background, finding myself and now my relationship to religion in general has such a huge impact on my creative work and the work that I do with others. One of my main pillars is choosing freedom and helping or inspiring others to do the same is so important to me. freeing yourself from the chains and cages others have put you in is one of the bravest and most important things one can do. We only get to do this life, in our current incarnations once, why let someone else drive the experience for you, especially if it causes you more harm than good?

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I got into my work by deciding I didn’t want to live the life that was being presented to me. At 15 I started my own Magazine, called XO which opened up so many doors for me to experiment and explore so many new creative avenues that I still work in from styling, photography, writing, and curating a vision to execution. My experiences with my magazine led me to expand into doing these things for myself and other creatives in the music and movie industries. Later I had a few more “in your face” spiritual experiences that led me to be more open about my practices of mysticism, astrology, and product. creation as well as get more serious about the art I was putting out into the world. whether I’m painting, making music, creating clothes, or creating spiritual products I no longer see them as separate but part of the Baby Reckless universe. I currently run a patreon where I cover astrology, magic, and tools to help people on their own journeys, I offer tropical and Jyotish astrology + divination services for clients and create seasonal items for others to use in their own spiritual practices like oils, candles, sprays, etc. I also create mixed media art for myself, my audience, and commissions. I have taken a small break from styling to focus on my own clothing brand and music as that is where my heart has been pulling me towards. I love that people see themselves in my work and I love the niche that I’ve carved out for myself which is that everything I do is for “the angels, witches, dolls, and bitches” in a society where gender-based violence is the norm, people find power and freedom in the spaces and the work I cultivate. We did not come to this planet to serve capitalism and die, we are here to live deliciously in the garden. We work in relationship to the land and our community and in turn, we are equally held and provided for. My work not only celebrates but revels in enjoying this life, this body, and all its desires. When the world is on fire, joy, and liberation is an inside job and I honour this in my work.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

In 2020 I had to hard pivot from the work I was doing with concert photography and freelancing various jobs in movies and TV. It was a very hard time because I felt like all the hard work of finally feeling like I was making headway for myself came crumbling down when we had to go on lockdown. on top of that a few years later were the SAG strikes which halted things for a long time. I had to go back to my roots of hustling and being creative but it was such a transformative time that led me back to creating again for myself and focusing on being back online. It also helped me shed a lot of projections and goals I thought I wanted but weren’t aligned with me. It was not easy at all and I don’t romanticize it because it was lowkey traumatic but It introduced me to so many new people, viewpoints and other avenues of creativity to try like hosting spaces online, trying new artistic mediums, and overall adding to my development as an artist and as a human. It got me out of a rigid mindset of what I thought my life needed to be like and helped me to be able to trust and surrender more, which is still a challenge for me but healing isn’t linear right haha

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I started my journey when the internet and social media was still in its early stages. My birthing grounds were places like xanga, myspace, twitter and tumblr and I was adamant about creating physical media. But now there are so many tutorials on how to do so much on youtube or universities offering free online courses for certificates, while these resources have seemed to always be there and are still increasing, I wish I had known about things like grants or residencies earlier when it comes to art as they can be really helpful to newer artists and there are so many opportunities that can be life-changing if you are able to find them. something helpful to me has been to take the time to search for any and all opportunities and to take a chance and apply or submit to the ones I feel called to. Even if you don’t receive the opportunity, you might gain a. contact that can help you later down the line. I will say be careful of scams and do your research but ultimately those things have been a huge help for me.

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