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Why explaining creative work can feel impossible or inauthentic

I can create powerful work when I'm alone but in my MFA program I freeze up during critiques and can't articulate what my art is about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The demand to translate nonverbal creative knowing into verbal concepts creates a fundamental mismatch between different modes of understanding.

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