Meet Wendy Saha

We had the good fortune of connecting with Wendy Saha and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Wendy, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
It’s more of a creative aspect to living than a career. A “thing” I do that over the years evolves into different forms and sometimes the result is financial gain.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
For the past 15 years I have been working in analog collage. It started as a necessity to have a continued creative outlet. I had a partner that I worked with so it also presented a social collaborative energy as well. The collage work we did together and I do now independently often use plexiglas as a background. This is where the name Modplexi came from. Themes are all over the place but usually touch on a one of the following: vintage, ridiculous, badass women, pop culture, music, and color. With the art itself, the lesson I am continuously learning is when to stop. When it’s done. I am a maximalist so it’s tricky.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
I live in Austin so there are always endless shows, amazing food, drinks, parks, art, performances, festivals, etc. What to do is dependent on what time of year visiting, your tolerance for crowds and traffic, and your age. Here are just some of my favs that make me happy.
Food and/or coffee: Bouldin Creek, Bodhi Viet Vegan, Mr. Natural, Nori, Uncle Phan’s (Vietnamese iced coffee that will fuel you for a week), Buzzmill, Quacks
Drinks: Canary Roost, Barfly, Yellow Jacket Social, Kinda Tropical, my backyard (drinks are expensive in this town!)
Art, music, performance: Bolm Arts, Austin Studio Tour, AFS, MOHA, Mohawk, Hyperfilm, Cheer Up Charlies
Misc: Ballet Austin, China Center, North Loop (Room Service, Monkey Wrench, We Luv Video and more), Pease Park, driving North Lamar
Misc. misc: Austin has so many indie used book “dealers” that do lots of pop ups everywhere. It’s amazing.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
Music and books and books and music. I grew up in a small town so books and music were definitely key survival tools until I was able to drive to Houston which of course took books and music (long live Numbers!) to an entirely new level. Bowie, Burroughs and Baldwin were my first loves. 90.1 KPFT had a late night avant-garde show. Taught me that there is no one way, no right way, no mandatory timeline. Infinite approaches.

Instagram: @modplexi