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Elisa Dalle Molle | Episode 1232
Elisa Dalle Molle began pottery during a challenging time, finding calm and connection through clay. After moving to Ireland in 2020, Elisa launched a sea-inspired ceramics business. Though now working full-time, Elisa continues creating and teaching pottery as a self regulating practice, sharing its therapeutic power with others through mindful, creative classes.
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If you were painted in a corner, you had to give a definition for creativity, how would you define it?
Well, I would say it is a way to explore how you could express yourself in different ways. It is a little bit of a research into yourself and see what you’re coming up with.
Do you think that creativity is more an issue of originality?
I would rather say something that is very, very individual rather than it being, per se being “original”. Or maybe it’s original because it’s individual? I don’t know. I’m tangling up here, but it doesn’t need to be particularly innovative as long as you get to express yourself in a way that makes sense to you.
For you, where do your best ideas come from? Is it intuitive or is it thought out and planned?
It is mostly intuitive. I am working towards something and when I hit a particular result, I go with it. I don’t know whether that makes any sense, but It is something that then my intuition says, that is it. That’s what I was looking for. This is what I like. And then I try to reproduce it time and time again. But it’s not planned. It is something that is coming out. And then I say, yeah, that’s it.
Do you think fear of what other people think can become a blockade for creativity?
Yeah, definitely. Fear of what other people think is for sure a big break on a way to express yourself. I mean, we’re all social beings and we want to be recognized or valuable within the community. So Yeah, we depend on what other people think of us.
Do you think that social media helps or hinders creativity?
It depends on how you use it, really. Maybe this sounds a little bit arrogant maybe, but I try to direct my social media to show me what I would like to see rather than what they impose on me. I just want to see art and clay, possibly bad jokes or fluffy animals. So I don’t hit any post that doesn’t express that particular content. And so I found that over time, my social media actually is very free of politics, of things that I don’t want to see in my free time when I’m having a break or something like that.
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The White Road by Edmund De Waal
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