Giving Shape to the Inner World

This evening explores how giving a feeling a shape, as a character, an image, or a letter, can help us understand our inner worlds. Based on the book Monsters of My Mind, the session moves between conversation and hands-on making, asking how creativity can help us say what words alone cannot. What would your monster look like?
Members of the panel read scenes from the book, opening a conversation on how comics, humour, and absurdity make difficult experiences easier to look at. Inspired by Leonora Carrington’s Surrealist Survival Kit, postcards are shared, with five prompts: courage, joy, adventure, love, and possibility. The evening closes with a short letter to a monster of your own, with no need to name or explain it. That which feels deeply personal, need not be isolating.















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Venue: Library


How Creativity Helps Us Make Sense of What We Feel
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*Speakers*: Tanya Sudheer, Vivekananda Roy Ghatak, Riya Nagendra, Abhik Bhattacherji
*Event Categories*: Design, Visual Arts