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The Bandwidth Tax: What Money Fear Actually Costs a Creative Practice (opens the original)
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What Your Creative Medium History Reveals: And What It Suggests About Where Your Practice Might Go Next (opens the original)
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Episode 16: The Different Ways Health Shows Up in What You Make (opens the original)
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This episode wraps up Season 1’s exploration of how health impacts creative content.In this episode:How health shows up uninvited: color palette shifts during depression, unfinished sentences, a character who never gets a mouth, and a poet who spent years writing about the ocean before realizing every poem was about her mother’s dementia diagnosisIllness as the actual subject versus illness as metaphor, using Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Care Work: Dre
Episode 15: How Health Impacts My Own Content (opens the original)
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In the last few episodes we’ve been looking at how health and circumstance impact creative content. In this episode, I talk mostly about my own experience of that:, addressing unfinished projects, content that isn’t meant to resolve, and the real questions that come up when someone else’s life ends up inside what you make.In this episode:Why some content is made to be created, but not publishedThe question of consent when you’re working with someone else’s actual words, with a nod to Melissa Feb
San Francisco News: Creative Health Cartography October Workshop (opens the original)
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