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 ...