What makes art work? Is creativity a psychological process, a mystical one, or something stranger, layered, and unnameable?

In this episode of The Unwritten Aesthetic, Reese and Lauren dive deep into an evocative conversation inspired by Gordon White’s Podcast, Rune Soup, and the episode titled “Art as Evocation” with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel of Weird Studies. Together, Reese and Lauren explore the numinous, the imaginal, and the nature of creativity through philosophy, psychology, and personal experience.

Topics include:

• Whether artists act as mediums or makers
• Flow state vs. ego in artistic practice
• Possibility, actualization, and unfinished art
• AI art and the question of human agency
• Magic vs. psychology and why the answer might be “both”
• Oppositional forces within metaphysics and schismatic selfhood
• Creation as Genesis and the paradox of consciousness

If you love philosophical deep dives, metaphysics, art theory, or long-form intuitive thinking, this one’s for you. Enjoy, and step into the imaginal with us!

Welcome to The Unwritten Aesthetic, where the intellectual rigor of philosophy meets the creative pursuit of an artful life. A place for two friends to be passionate about philosophy as an artistic pursuit, ask life’s most important questions, create something we believe in, and to be two silly gooses.

Please check out and support Rune Soup and the Creator, Gordon White: https://www.youtube.com/@RuneSoup

https://runesoup.com/

Please check out and support Weird Studies and the Creators, Phil Ford and J. F. Martel:

https://www.weirdstudies.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/weird-studies/id1343819177

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References and Resources:

The Original Podcast Episode, Art as Evocation by Rune Soup: https://youtu.be/3eHU8fZRpis?si=uN7hqiCXs8bCLl_u

With artful Coherence,

Reese and Lauren