The Slowest Somersault Imaginable: On Attention and Transformation
EP. 03
The Slowest Somersault Imaginable:
On Attention and Transformation
with Alexandra Fuller
In this episode, Alma is joined by Alexandra Fuller, a visual artist and poet based in the Utah desert whose practice moves between photography, installation, and text to explore impermanence, climate, and the shifting relationship between people and place.
Together they reflect on the arc of a two-year creative exchange that began as an epistolary poetry practice and unfolded into friendship, collaboration, and shared inquiry. Their conversation traces themes of fear and courage, thresholds, the archetypal power of the mother, and the role of attention as our greatest creative currency. Alex shares the story of a waking dream that reshaped her relationship to making, opening her practice to play, levity, and surrender.
The exchange opens into a meditation on the fertile pause of the in-between — and how both art and life ask us to loosen our grip, attend closely, and allow ourselves to be remade.
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About Alexandra:
Alexandra Fuller is a self-taught visual artist based in the rural Utah desert. Her practice moves between photography, installation, and poetry, exploring impermanence, climate, and the shifting relationship between people and place. With roots in narrative filmmaking-- her films have shown at Sundance and SXSW-- She brings a strong sense of story and material attention to her visual art, often weaving in text, tactility and process. Her work has been exhibited across Utah in galleries and museums, and is held in both public and private collections.
Alexandra is also the founder of TOURIST, a creative agency born of her lifelong relationship with movement and place. There she draws on her years as a creative director and filmmaker, gathering collaborators to craft story-driven campaigns that carry the same sensibility as her art: attentive to landscape, shaped by narrative, and alive to the ways travel transforms.
Connect with Alexandra here.