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Why audiences fixate on heritage over innovation

Every time I show my Afrofuturist ceramics to the pottery guild they want to talk about the African influences but never the sci-fi elements and it makes me want to stop making anything

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Reductive cultural categorization by viewers diminishes the artist's creative agency and complexity.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cross-cultural creativity — aesthetics across traditions?”

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