Creatively Thinking With Carolyn Botelho
Join Carolyn Botelho as she goes beneath the surface with local Creative Professionals on their practice, inspiration, and perspectives. Carolyn pulls you underneath the fabric of their creativity, where we discover how their genius of communicating in the Arts transforms, and translates into spectacular reality. What does their medium say about them?
What do they think of originality? Authenticity? In what moment of their creativity does their true passion sit? Is it in the imagination stage? Conceptualization? Or the Gallery or Stage? What are their feelings on Abstraction? Realism? Where are they seeing their career taking them in the next ten years? Do they have any political or social agendas with their Art?
Currently we are working on the Second Season where we go further into how Creative Professionals are incorporating their practice into mainstream society. How is their understanding of and practice pushing boundaries and developing their skills? How does the business side of being an Artist change being an Artist? Second season will be released soon!
Creatively Thinking With Carolyn Botelho
Episode #3 Emily Zou: Where Are You Planted
Creating psychological spaces that transcend reality using found objects, fabrics, and basically trash Emily Zou wanders amongst the myriad of mental and physical constructs that litter our landscapes. Both physical and emotionally Emily shares her mental health struggles. How they shape how she lives, and draw the energy within her to reshape what we throw away, she gives a new life.
Zou labored these thrown away items not simply by a straight trajectory at school. But rather a labor of anxious anxiety she found during the dark days of the COVID Pandemic. Where many Artists had an incredible amount of time to linger, reflect, and try new creative avenues. While at the same time she was discovering her own sadness, Zou transformed it into a useful energy that she wrapped, and combines to create huge sculptures of reclaimed items to have a visionary new beginning.
Twisting and refashioning her creations repeatedly. Her creative practice becomes therapeutic, creating a sense of release. A physical and emotional remapping and reawakening of the materials she uses. They create a new dialogue of semblances and shapes; colours and shadows that becomes a magical new language that reinterprets our world as it is today. From the climate crisis to more personal items that take on new meanings because of their new context.
Emily Zou Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho
Connect with Emily Zou:
https://emilyzouart.format.com/contact
Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho