A Midwife Not a Director | Anna Moszczenska | Episode 665

Anna Moszczenska | Episode 665

Anna Moszczenska fell in love with clay when she took a pottery course a few years ago. From then on Anna loved working with clay. For her working with clay is like an unintentional process, and Anna has learned to accept it as an instinctive method. Ann is drawn to abstraction as a way to uncover and express her feelings and emotions. Anna expresses herself by creating different forms and shapes using a different clay body and applying colourful slips. Anna is inspired by abstract and surrealistic paintings. She works primarily by making coiled vessels and slab work.

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Do you agree with people that say you are creative?

Yes, I am. I do agree with them.

From your perspective how do you see your creativity?

I see myself as a person who loves to make things from a chunk of clay. And it’s amazing when you see something that comes out that you just look at it and you say, Wow! I made it. And it’s all yours. So I think this is amazing to be able to have this kind of skill where you just make things from a lump of clay and my daughter is looking at it and saying, Look how great you did! And Can you make me this and that with clay. And it’s like, Yes. So yes, it’s great and all of my family is very supportive and they love what I am doing.

Have you ever made something and stood back when it is all said and done and been blown away that you made it?

Yes.

And what’s that like?

It’s just good. It’s a good feeling and then when you look at other people’s reaction as well when they love your work it’s just extra, extra, extra great to see that as well.

What do you wish to accomplish with your art?

I don’t know yet, to be honest with you. I just feel like I’m on this journey and I am still learning and I have to learn a lot and I know that. And I just love to be on this journey exploring and I don’t know whether I’ve got my own style or I don’t know how to put it. I think I have to explore more, do more, and I really don’t know where this is going to take me. I don’t have a set plan of what I want to achieve. I am open to whatever happens.

What kind of things do you do to get your creative juices to flow?

I need to be in nature. That’s my thing. I love to be in nature, hiking, being outside. Outdoors, that’s my thing. That helps me to just look at the world and see the sky and everything around me. That just gives me this energy to be more creative I suppose.

How would you define successful for an artist?

That’s a big question. I think the most important thing is just to be proud of your own work that you do. Whatever you make, you make it and you are happy with it. I know it’s really easy to be critical which everybody could be of their own work, which I am as well. But I suppose you just have to sometimes let it go and just accept the way you are in the moment because you know it is just a phase of your life and you are learning going through this process. Yeah, I think being successful is just accepting the way you are.

Salvador Dali said, I don’t do drugs, I am drugs. How would you apply that to your creativity?

I would love for people to say about my art like that. (laughter) I would love for my art to be little drug pills really. By looking at them you get this kind of great feeling.