| Your Name | Oliver Polzin |
|---|---|
| Email Address | oligpolzin@hotmail.com |
| Cohort Assignment | Cohort C (Americas, In-Person Intensive) |
| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Creating potent and transformative art. Integrating regenerative, eco-spiritual, and bio-interconnected philosophies into my mystic art practice. |
| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | To see deeply into the world, and re-present what I see in a way that guides the attention of others, humbly |
| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I want to reach more people with my art, and grow my capacity to create deeply meaningful pieces that balance between careful consideration and creative abandon. |
| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Becoming comfortable with my own voice. |
| 5. And for professional growth? | Getting better at communication and consistency in the outward facing aspect of my craft. |
| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | A lot! Thousands of hours on art, time in nature, reading about fungi, permaculture and more. Practicing deep attention in nature, practicing swale building in nature, crunching up carbon for the floor-eaters, trying to "throw starfish back into the sea" in the best way. |
| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | All artistic endeavors, collaborative creativity, early lessons from a clown. I love Loren Eisley, Paul Stamets, Sofie Strand, Terence McKenna. Ecological thinkers, myth thinkers, deep-time thinkers, fungal thinkers. |
| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | We're all here together. Competition is an illusion, and we can only build fertility - just in different measures and on different time-scales. Humans are incredible animals, with a drive to create surplus. I believe more of our human surplus (of energy, time, material) should be directed back toward the fertility of complex ecosystems. |
| Date Created | January 26, 2023 |