On Creativity | Part 1

Audre Lorde famously professed that “poetry is not a luxury”, but in a culture where survival demands that every moment be productive, it is a complex statement to accept. Is creativity a blessing or a burden? What does it mean to live a creative life?  What is the difference between art and commodity, and what do either have to do with living well?This episode is, ostensibly, an investigation into the why behind making for solely aesthetic reasons—but woven into it is the larger question of what it is to be human.This is Part 1 of On Creativity. Send a textShow notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up