Episode #3 Emily Zou: Where Are You Planted

Creating psychological spaces that transcend reality using found objects, fabrics, and basically trash Emily Zou wanders amongst the myriad of mental and physical constructs that litter our landscapes. Both physical and emotionally Emily shares her mental health struggles. How they shape how she lives, and draw the energy within her to reshape what we throw away, she gives a new life.

Zou labored these thrown away items not simply by a straight trajectory at school. But rather a labor of anxious anxiety she found during the dark days of the COVID Pandemic. Where many Artists had an incredible amount of time to linger, reflect, and try new creative avenues. While at the same time she was discovering her own sadness, Zou transformed it into a useful energy that she wrapped, and combines to create huge sculptures of reclaimed items to have a visionary new beginning.

Twisting and refashioning her creations repeatedly. Her creative practice becomes therapeutic, creating a sense of release. A physical and emotional remapping and reawakening of the materials she uses. They create a new dialogue of semblances and shapes; colours and shadows that becomes a magical new language that reinterprets our world as it is today. From the climate crisis to more personal items that take on new meanings because of their new context.

Emily Zou Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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Podcast Interview Credits:
Audio Links from https://freemusicarchive.org/
Podcast by Carolyn Botelho

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