the more open you can be about what the possibilities are in your process, the deeper you can go

and the more you can express your own contribution to that creative flow or however it manifests.

And so real fictions for me is just the culmination of a lot of thinking about science and art

and philosophy and trying to combine

all those things to kind of objectify human subjectivity.

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Arts Life podcast. So today I want to talk about freedom, freedom of expression, feeling free,

feeling unencumbered to make our work. And when you can, if you can arrange that, not worrying

about, you know, whatever, what other people think or trying to learn materials, you got to figure it all out.

But when you can get it to where it's easy and feels free, you feel free and more like yourself,

the work turns out better. And so it has to do with the materials you use and way you get comfortable with.

It has to do with how you think, right? Like sometimes we can get so bogged down in our world and, you know, you can lose objectivity. You're just up close, you know, but it's also really good to pull back and to see your work from across the room. But also to think about yourself and what you're making and see it in a bigger

context. I mean, go way out. So that's the theme of today. And I've been having this conversation,

but the person I've been having this conversation with about this for probably the past 25 years

is my really good friend, Steve Lomprey.

He is a multimedia artist, musician, videographer, painter, amazing in so many disciplines.

But we've been having this conversation about how we are in the world, how we can be more free,

what we need to cut out, what we need to include.

And he's been working on a project that we've been really talking about a lot lately.

It's the pilot for a docuseries called Real Fictions, and it's all about this pullback, this 40,000-foot view

about the world, about creativity, about our place in it.

What actually is real?

What's not?

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