What Artists Brandish: Chris Burnett’s Art of Talk

ByClarke Condé 04/11/201524/10/2026

Chris Burnett by Clarke Condé – Pyragraph

Welcome to another installment of Brandish, a Pyragraphic portrait series featuring artists of all energies along with the unsung tools that they brandish—those tools without which the artists would not be able to do their specific batches of creativity.

“I think the art of the talk is a lost art. The power of talk, the power to improvise, to sit down for two hours and talk about anything, to play off other people and show my intellect and comedy and sadness. People often ask, ‘What’s the show about tonight?’ and I say, ‘Well, I don’t know yet.’”

—Chris Burnett | Web Entertainer and Host of 10 Drink Minimum

Clarke Condé

Clarke Condé is a photographer, New York expatriate, and Pyragraph’s Managing Editor (though not necessarily in that order). He has held high positions at lowly publications in New York, but has settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico to live the simple life of a food and folk photographer. His hobbies include washing dishes, rewashing dishes and throwing out perfectly good food. You can see more of his work at his website or in his latest book, Work in Rochester.