Sanithna Phansavanh: The Importance of Creativity + Prioritizing Play - a podcast by Mary Grace Allerdice
from 2020-01-23T06:00
In this episode, I'm talking with artist Sanithna Phansavanh. He’s a visual artist based here in Atlanta. I have always enjoyed and had an affinity for his work. In this episode we talk about creative process, the importance of fallow periods and rest, re-orienting practices towards play and approaching spirituality with a mind open to redrawing lines.
We discuss:
- His internal challenge with identifying a singular style or approach.
- His relationship with color
- HIs background and growing up in an immigrant family
- How he made his way into art making
- His relationship and integration with making a living and making art
- Reaching a point of burn out and taking a year off
- Re-orienting his practice towards play
- Where a lot of his ideas originate and his love of the written word
- His thoughts on approaching a piece of art
- How he knows when a piece is done
- His current relationship with reductionism + simplicity
- Playing with archetypes, mythology and abstraction
- Thoughts on failure, creative process + quantum theory
- How his favorite works have been the ones that challenged him
- The function of his creative process and the flow state
- Alchemy and the power of creativity beyond art
- The way he thinks about spirituality
- Being inspired by presence and experiencing right now
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Episode 10 w/ Michael J Morris - on connection as healing, political witchcraft, liberation . + the aesthetics of ethics
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