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It’s rare we get an artist to come out of retirement for a Radio Juxtapoz podcast, but there we were in Aberdeen, Scotland this past weekend with the pioneering and legendary artist SWOON. She didn’t retire per se; she retired from street art. The consuming nature of the art form she felt took her away from other creative outlets she wanted pursue, like installations, philanthropy, museum exhibitions, gallery work, collaboration and now, animation and film. But for Nuart Aberdeen, she got back in the game for a week for a series of wheat-pastes that felt so familiar, it was like seeing an old friend after years away. Perhaps it is the Caledonia in her name that got her inspired in…