How to invite creativity into your life | Rose B. Simpson, Debbie Millman
5/2/202620 min
What do you hear when you sit in silence? For artist Rose B. Simpson, that question is the beginning of all art. She comes from a line of ceramic artists stretching back generations and, as part of her multidisciplinary work, she also builds custom lowrider cars. (If that sounds like a contradiction, that's kind of the point.) In conversation with "Design Matters" podcast host Debbie Millman, Simpson invites you to find your own aesthetic — not by searching, but by listening.
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First 90 secondsElise Hu· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hu. What happens when you grow up in a home where art isn't something you go see, but something you create to survive? Rose B. Simpson would know. She comes from a line of clay artists stretching back generations. She also builds custom lowrider cars, and if that sounds like a contradiction, it's kind of the point.
Rose B. Simpson· Guest0:30
I look at a car and I don't see the car, I see what it could be. I look at a garden and I don't see the garden, I see what it could be, and then I begin.
Elise Hu· Host0:38
Rose grew up in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, raised by her mother, the sculptor Roxanne Swentzell, in a home where the electricity was sometimes deliberately turned off and art was indistinguishable from life. In this conversation with Design Matters podcast host Debbie Millman, she explores what it means to treat everything, a ceramic figure, a car, a room, your own body, as a vessel. They talk about what it means to listen to the world around you, and Rose reminds us that we are never as powerless as we think.
Rose B. Simpson· Guest1:09
There wasn't a difference between art and life. Everything was a creative process, and everything was applied, and everything had intention and meaning.
Elise Hu· Host1:19
The conversation's coming up right after a short break.