The Creative Bridge with Daniela – November 2019, The Enlightenment Month

Our Artistic Director Daniela Pavan discusses the topic of Light and Enlightenment from a business and a creative ideas development point of view with our host of the month, Award-Winning Author, Playwright, and novelist David James Parr.

“I honestly believe that creativity cannot be switched on and off, like a light switch. It’s a process that requires us to become comfortable with making mistakes because it includes failed attempts, it requires us to take courage and try, it’s a test and learn approach. And this creative anxiety is borne out of a society that expects perfection, that expects creatives to generate ideas quickly. This same society though teaches us that there are only right or wrong answers and leaves very little space to experiment and test ideas. Think about Thomas Edison. Its invention of the light bulb in 1879 came out as the result of tons of experiments. According to The Time, he tested more than 6,000 possible materials before finding the one that worked, the carbonized bamboo. Also, he made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. And when a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Edison kept persevering without giving up and gave birth to a disruptive invention for those times, which still is part of our current standards of living. What do you think David?”

David James Parr

“I totally agree with you Daniela. The creative process takes time: You have to accept that sometimes you’re not going to have the time, or the energy, to deliver on an idea. I’ve had what I thought were light bulb moments on the subway on my commute to work in the morning, but by the time I’ve been crammed inside a subway car, and had the train delayed between stops, and the air conditioning to go out, and then to spill out into a station and climb up the stairs, and so on—the idea gets lost. So it’s important to just relax and breathe and know that another idea will come, or maybe that same idea will come back. The writer Jamaica Kincaid once said—and I don’t remember the exact quote—but it was that sometimes writers need to just walk around and feel sad or emotional or go to dark places in their brain in order to illuminate some real truths…”

For the full conversation, listen to the Creative Bridge Episode

Creative Briefing – November 2019, The Enlightenment Month

Yayoy Kusama
November, 2019, is the Enlightenment month for the Creative Pois-On Podcast. “Let there be light. And there was light.” This infamous quote from the Genesis expresses in a poetic and very visual way, an essentially creative process – to bring something to the light, out of the darkness. This is true of all creations: when you birth an idea, when you bring to the light a child, when you light up the stage of a theater and you give light to your creation for everybody to see it, when you stand up under the spotlight  to pitch your business idea that you’ve been working so hard on.
David James Parr

Guided by the voice and the enlightened mind of the host of the month of November, Award-Winning Writer, Author, Playwright and Novelist David James Parr – an exceptional creator of worlds – the Creative Directors Tommaso Cartia and Daniela Pavan try to go deep in the understanding of how important Light is in any creative process, but also how important and fundamental Darkness is, meaning everything that happens in the dark before an idea, a project is out in the light.

This is indeed a sparkling month for the Creative Pois-On Podcast, besides the upcoming Creative Bridge episode with Daniela and the Creative Being with Tommaso, we will be featuring two dazzling interviews with two surprising guests who navigate through the waves of light, striking their audience with their works.

Transformation VS Trash-Formation – The Pop-Porno of Beauty

Kim Kardashian
Close-up – Kim Kardashian lensed by Jean-Paul Goude, on the cover of Paper Magazine, 2014

We’ve just left the Creative Pois-On October month dedicated to the theme of Transformation. We fathomed the subject in all its different declinations, from a cultural perspective to a business one, from folklore to fashion, iconography and the perks of reinvention. Pop culture is another one of those arenas where Transformation plays a big role. And reflecting on the transformation of the Criteria of Aesthetic Beauty, an image kept on popping into my mind… the 2014 Paper Magazine cover of Kim Kardashian… and I couldn’t help but wonder: either if you are horrified by it or not, either if you Like it, or not, are we in the presence of a Trash-formative Aesthetic Fact?

By Tommaso Cartia

In 2014, at one of the heights of her public overexposure, Kim Kardashian posted on her Instagram profile the artistic picture below, (I guess that is how she would describe it); shot by the well-known, well-respected photographer Jean-Paul Goude. She is all smiley and proud of graphically showing off all the splendor of her full-frontal body hyperbolic bum, oiled and retouched by the Photoshop genius for the occasion. 

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Jean-Paul Goude “Break the Internet – Kim Kardashian Paper Magazine, 2014”

The post immediately hit over a million of engagements, it went vertiginously viral, generating converts and desecrations, intrepid emulations and thousands of comments all over the social media, newspapers, TV shows: it was a case. Now, as long as you want to ignore the umpteenth excessed of the Reality TV star par excellence, you can’t ignore the fact that this image, like many others bombarding our eyes with daily, incessant rhythm, is definitely an aesthetic fact. This picture is certainly not more provocative than others, and also, is not an original concept. It’s indeed a remake of an old Goude’s photo-shoot, But it certainly got under the skin and subliminally deep into the conscience of the millions of people who commented it and discussed its aesthetic criteria of Beauty, with the modern criteria of today: I Like it. I Don’t Like It. I Heart It. I Don’t Heart It.  Beauty. 

Carolina Beaumont
Jean-Paul Goude “Break the Internet – Kim Kardashian Paper Magazine, 2014” / Jean-Paul Goude “Carolina Beaumont, New York, 1976” (1976)

Considering all the hearts she collected with the post, did she equally receive the same amount of love? It is sort of a paradox in fact; if you go through the comments and behind the profiles who wrote them, most of the time you get a negative comment from the ones who hearted it. We should assume that liking is fundamental than, either if you like something or not. So, is it still possible today to contemplate absolute criteria for aesthetic Beauty? 

One sure thing is that the Kardashian’s, is definitely a pop image and an even more a pornographic one in its most artisticassumption. It’s the so-called aesthetic of the Pop-Porn which is deeply rooted in the progressive deconstruction of the conforming paradigms of the bourgeois society throughout the 20th and 21st century. However, the ground-breaking turning point of our contemporary days is how viral these pornographic images can go and the possibility not only to process them at the speed of light but to be ourselves authors of those images, selfie-portraitists and post-artists of our own pornographic images, of our own ravenous voyeurism. 

If I were the curator of the Museum of the Pop-Porn, I would expose one next to the other these grand masterpieces: Ingres’s Grand Odalisque, Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, a pop-art Marilyn, a Grace Jones shot by Goude himself, a Madonna, a Lady Gaga, a Miley Cyrus and a Kardashian. 

Marilyn Monroe
From the left: La Grand Odalisque, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Grace Jones, Marilyn Monroe
Madonna
Madonna’s famous cone breasts outfit
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga’s cover art for The Fame Monster album
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball

The subtle transformation between these images of Beauty leads to a progressive abandon of the subject, of the Ego and its symbolic world. La Grande Odalisque is a subject of sophisticated eroticism and an icon of a still timid female emancipation just right after the dogmatic veto imposed on the unveiling of the human body by the Catholic Church in the sacred depictions. The grotesques Demoiselles unnerve the eye and investigate the meta- dimensional metamorphosis of the human being. The advent of pop art transfigures and objectifies the images which don’t refer to profound identities anymore, they refer just to themselves; but here the individuality of the Ego is not totally dead yet because there will be who will dress up this pop aesthetic to customize, in provocative trends, their own identities: Grace Jones, David Bowie, Madonna, George Michael among others. 

David Bowie
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane

Lady Gaga – the personage that Miss Germanotta constructed at the beginning of her career – is still a symbolist. It’s a well thought conceptual mask, shimmering and grotesque, but here the individuality of the Ego is undone, you don’t see almost anything of the woman underneath the mask. But Gaga is still an artist of the Self. From who covers up everything to who shows everything, it is time for the pop-pornography that has its own muses and incarnations: Miley Cyrus in the era of her wrecking bum, Kim Kardashian and many others of that kind. What is left of the Ego, what is left of the Self? Now the image is just functional to the fattening of a viral hysterical aesthetic that doesn’t relate anymore to a Criteria of Beauty but to a Criteria of Cool or to one of its subcategories: Trash. Beauty can be marvelous like a Monet painting or disturbing like a Francis Bacon one, Cool is just Cool or eventually, Trash, the Piero Manzoni’s Artist’s Shit.

Perhaps, the plasticity of these empty carcasses still hides and muffles the Munch’s Scream of our subconscious crisis. This profanation of the persona and of the intellect that diverts our attention from the preoccupation of our wandering in the darkness of a society of fragmented individuals, buries or maybe sadly amplifies in this necromancer’s process, our troublesome mysterious Ego, that more than being lost, it seems at times, like it had never existed in the firs place. 

Piero Manzoni
Piero Manzoni – Artist’s Shit

The tool of this aesthetic of Cool is the plastic hyperrealism of Photoshop, a fatal chisel that shapes everything it touches into Influencers Barbies and Kens. And what is Goude’s Kardashian image if not a Pop Porno Barbie, and her bum an alive metonym of its vacuum shell? Kim Kardashian here is a victimized offender of her own eagerness to display and a naïve victim of an artistic offense perpetrated against her by the genius of Jean-Paul Goude who immortalized with a similar motif the iconic and revolutionary Grace Jones. But there is really nothing gracious about this reinterpretation by Kim Kardashian. These Pop-Porn images are freed from their essence, they are reproducible merchandise, ironical paradoxes, a simulacrum of their lack of contents: sexy bodies, provocative, sacrilegious, that passively play, unaware of playing, with archetypical symbols but displacing them, draining them out and hybridize them into something mute and inconsistent. 

 “Profanation is not a negation of mystery, but one of the possible relationships with it” (E.Levinas

Creative Interview with Gina Lynn Pearson. A Plus-Size Role Model with a Plus-Size Heart

Gina Lynn Pearson
Gina Lynn Pearson lensed by @abanyiefilmstudio. Courtesy of Gina Lynn Pearson Instagram Profile @ginalynnpearson

The month of October for Creative Pois-On falls under the umbrella of the Transformation theme. And as the foliage on the trees shades their colors in a beautiful mixture of red, gold and brown, we had the honor to feature another beautiful mixture of people promoting diversity and self-love in and through fashion, the members of the Melange Project 2019. Among them, we have been graced by our host for the month Digital Strategist, Beauty & Fitness Model and Executive Producer of Melange 2019, Mara De Los Santos; here in conversation with Plus-Size Model and Executive Producer herself, Gina Lynn Pearson. A must-read interview, a must-listen story, a powerful voice of a generation that should be hungry for Plus-size role models with Plus-Size hearts.

By Mara De Los Santos, Tommaso Cartia & Daniela Pavan

As Nick Navarro, Executive Producer and Co-Founder of Melange said, “We started this fashion network in 2011. A unique catalyst for community building for people of diverse backgrounds.” The founders chose the French word “mélange,” which means “mix,” to celebrate diversity and the different art forms incorporated into Melange’s shows. Melange is currently transitioning into a nonprofit, and Navarro said that Friday’s show raised money for KEHF, an organization that provides schooling and health services to orphans in Uganda. Melange has held events in San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, and New York City, but Navarro said there was something particularly meaningful about Friday’s show.“Melange having its first show during New York Fashion Week is a significant milestone, as it shows our unstoppable growth and impact in terms of promoting more love in the art world.” Melange’s advisory board includes several people who have broken barriers in the fashion world, including Katiti Kironde, the first African woman to appear on the cover of a fashion magazine, in the August 1968 issue of Glamour, and Madeline Stuart, the first model with Down syndrome to walk the runway during New York Fashion Week, in 2015.

New York Fashion Week
Madeline Stuart and Gina Lynn Pearson walking the runway of Melange 2019. Photo Credit: Coche Productions

A powerful and strikingly beautiful representation of this Melange’s spirit lives in Plus-size Model Gina Lynn Pearson, who actually had the honor to escort Madeline Stuart on the runway this year. As she likes to call herself, the social worker by day and social twerker by night spritzing girl, opens up her heart in this intimate conversation with Mara De Los Santos.

Mara – What inspired you to participate in the Melange Project?

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Mara De Los Santos

Gina – Initially I found Melange on an App called Backstage; and I decided to do it because I was housing my biological brother and during that time he was very abusive and manipulative, and one of the things that he last said to me was: “you are a fat…” and then the B. word. I wanted to take that and turn that into something positive, I wanted to get out and model and then I found Melange which embodies diversity, love and inclusion, I just knew I had to jump on it. 

Gina Lynn Pearson
Gina Lynn Pearson lensed by @abanyiefilmstudio. Courtesy of Gina Lynn Pearson Instagram Profile @ginalynnpearson

M – Tell us about your audition.

G – I was very afraid, because it was my very first-time modeling. When I went in the room, everyone was so filled with love, the room had so much positive energy. And during it they asked if you had a talent, I didn’t know what I would do for the talent and then out of wham I decided that I would say a spoken-word piece about the time where I was in the foster care system and the children’s mental health system. After that I walked, and they absolutely loved the piece, and because of that I was able to get a costumed design piece for me. 

M – Oh, I remember your spoken-word piece, it was chilling, I had goosebumps. So, you were saying about the foster care system, how long it lasted and how did that shape your life?

G – I was there for about 18 years I think that my time there definitely shaped me because I didn’t have the average experience that a lot of people in foster care have. First of a lot of them don’t stay in foster care for such a long time as I did. I moved in over 35 foster residential homes. So, it taught me to be strong, independent and resilient. 

M – You do have some magic about you that I’m sure was formed by over the strength and perseverance you garnered as you were living through these experiences. What would you say that you personally bring Melange?

G – I think that my experiences taught me to become a much kinder person and that is just who the Melange team is, and so I was able to jump right on board. Everyone calls me Gina the ‘Hype Woman’, the ‘Beauty Guru’. Everything you need I’m just there, to have your back.

Gina Lynn Pearson
Gina Lynn Pearson lensed by @abanyiefilmstudio

M – During our last show, which it was featured on the NBC news, you put everyone else before yourself. You were the absolute last person to get ready and I remember you changing backstage as quick as possible and literally spritzing upstairs to go and ended up walking with Madeline and you got an amazing shot. This attitude of yours really shows that Melange is not a typical environment. Is actually the antithesis of Fashion Week, we are not there to be snobby, but to make sure that everyone feels comfortable. But Melange is not everything that you are…

G – I’m a fulltime social worker and I help the ones who are in the foster care system. I was also in the children’s mental health system. I really felt like I want to give back and help the people who helped me. 

M – And when you are not doing your 9 to 5?

G – I joke around and I say that I’m a social worker by day and a social twerker by night! Because I really love to have and fun and to be the life of the party, and that’s why I got into modeling as well. I’m a freelance Plus-Size model emboding positive, inclusive and diversity messages, that’s why I love Melange.

M – For Nick Navarro, our Melange founder, one of our goals is to provide a platform for people to thrive and find themselves and figure out what they should be doing, and I believe that for you this was the case. So, on the top of the theme of Tranformation, which is our topic of the month, how do you think that it applies to both your professional and personal life?

– I think that throughout my life I needed to go through so many transitions. I had to find myself and who I am and stay firm in who I am. Going through all of those different changes it also taught me not just to get my own world’s perspective, but other people’s as well, understanding their transitions, their timing and how to be patient with them. 

Gina Lynn Pearson
Gina Lynn Pearson lensed by @abanyiefilmstudio. Courtesy of Gina Lynn Pearson Instagram Profile @ginalynnpearson

M – Can you share any criticism that you faced that kind of made you think of transforming yourself? 

G – You know somebody told me once, that it was not other people stopping me from succeeding in life, but that it was really my mouth… and that was really transformative for a young person who wishes so quick to snap back at adults because of where I was coming from. And then I would say that the second big transformation of my life was two years ago. I was sexually assaulted by a police officer and during that time he called me fat, like my biological brother did, that didn’t transform myself in the way that I see my body, but it actually allowed me to love myself more. Because I said, you know what? That is not who I am, I’m more than that, that was the action of another person and not reflective of me, even though at times of course I had a difficult time compartmentalizing those different things.

M – Wow, what a powerful experience Gina, thank you so much for sharing. Going back to your work at Melange, how do you bring your own life’s struggle and beautiful lessons you have learned into the project?

G – I was working with all the models this year, I worked on them one on one, and each one of them came from their own background and they all have their fight to fight and show their resilience. Being in it as an Executive Producer, I had the chance to help the models when they didn’t feel they were at their best during make-up time and stuff like that, showing them that it is really not about make-up because it swipes away, it is not about hair because you take that down; is about everything that is found on the inside, it is about your personality and that’s why people choose you. 

Gina Lynn Pearson
Gina Lynn Pearson at the Hair Fashion Week Show. Photo by @melaniefutorian. Courtesy of Gina Lynn Pearson Instagram profile @ginalynnpearson

M – This is so important especially if we think of all the negative comments we read on social media and headlines, that refer to this imperialize view of fashion and beauty, that’s why I think that Melange is important for the times we are living in. 

G – Absolutely, showcasing those people who are just comfortable wearing dresses that society would mark as not appropriate for them to wear, is a great message and service that Melange provides for the world of fashion. We are all beings, here to serve a purpose. Let us all just allow that, to just to be and to be ourselves and that is what Melange does against all of the nitpicking and monkeys scraping at the end of the barrel of the fashion scene. I saw our models even helping each other, sharing each other castings, and that is beautiful, they really wanted to see the best for each other. 

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Members of Melange 2019. Photo Credit Alessandro “Fresco” Cerdas

M – Yeah, that was so beautiful. A few years ago we took Melange to Brazil for a very successful show and we are thinking of doing so again. We have done it in San Francisco and hope to do it in other states as well as maybe London or Paris, or Amsterdam in the future. This year for the first time Melange is partnering with a non-profit, Kironde Education and Health Fund to raise money to educate a nursing student in Uganda, East Africa. As we grow and expand our reach, we hope to do more of that kind of things. So, based on this, how would you say that it is next for Melange?

– I would say that our work isn’t done. We are definitely looking to expand, bringing people on board to work as a team who share the same values that we do. We really see no limits. 

MClosing up, thank you so very much for having been the exquisite cherry on top of this October month of the Creative Pois-On Podcast! Before we leave, is there anything else you want to add or share?

G – I just want to thank Creative Pois-On for the opportunity, and thank Melange for being so creative and for the work that they do. 

THE CREATIVE BEING WITH TOMMASO

Transformation in the Trash-formation Era

By Tommaso Cartia

What is a Creative Being? And how does he/she interpret and embody the theme of transformation in this mass media culture we are living in? Artist Director of Creative Pois-On Tommaso Cartia and our host for the month of October, Digital Strategist, Beauty & Fitness Model and Executive Producer of Melange 2019, Mara De Los Santos, take us on a journey through the themes of creativity, imagination and transformation, starting from our childhood memories to making surprising connections with the so-called pop-pornographic aesthetic and phenomenon like Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus… in pure Creative Pois-On style.

“I’m very interested in understanding the topic of Transformation in its vast cultural spectrum and try to detect what kind of role does it play in today’s society. We are living in a re-posting mode of the post-modern world, where everything is actually a bland copy and a repetition of stalling iconographies, distortions and deformations of our pop culture. I believe that we are not in a transformative time, but in an involutive one, and that’s why we need to go back to the power of imagination and creativity, now more than ever, to trigger a real shift.

What if I tell you that I think that Kim Kardashian is actually, and aesthetic fact? Either you like it or not, it’s a statement of something and actually one of the culminations of a cycle of pop culture transformation that probably speaks volumes of the world we are living today…does the category of Aesthetic Beauty still stands or are we at the mercy of an Aesthetic of Cool, or of its subcategory, the Aesthetic of Trash? Are we living in the era of Trash-formation?”

Tommaso Cartia

For more of Tommaso’s thoughts and insights on this topic, please listen to the full Creative Being episode.

Ready, set, imagine…

THE CREATIVE BRIEFING – TRANSFORMATION – OCTOBER 2019

Our host for the month of October, Digital Strategist, Beauty & Fitness Model and Executive Producer of Melange 2019, Mara De Los Santos introduces the topic of the month – Transformation – discussing it with the Artistic Directors of Creative Pois-On, Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, in a creative briefing anticipating the upcoming episodes: The Creative Bridge with Daniela, exploring the business side of the topic; The Creative Being with Tommaso, and The Creative Interview featuring a special guest who strongly embodies the Transformation theme.

By Tommaso Cartia & Daniela Pavan

“Why transformation, you may wonder. According to the dictionary, the meaning of the word transformation is ‘a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. A metamorphosis during the life cycle of an animal.’ We are in October, the quintessential month of change and transformation… starting from the seasonal shift. We just ended summer, days are getting shorter and shorter, we will start shivering, we will have to change our wardrobe, the way we dress, technically if we were animals, well we are, we should go to hibernation… so it is indeed a transformative time. It’s a season full of changes, when crops and fruits are gathered and leaves shade in to red, yellow and then fall, transforming completely the landscape in front of our eyes…”

As the discussion unfolds, the theme of Transformation finds its incarnations in a vast spectrum of subjects: from the archaic roots of Halloween, the folklore of the Venetian Carnival, and the current shifting trends of New York Fashion Week 2019, where the Melange Movement was a protagonist; to the transformation we could experience through the dramatic arts, with an exclusive look on the Sea Wall / A Life Broadway show with Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge.

OUR CREATIVE INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Creative Pois-On Podcast. The very first creative impulse, the very first act of connection with our audience, the very first storyline cast out to interconnect the polka-dots of our creativity. The voice of our host for the month of October, Digital Strategist, Beauty & Fitness Model and Executive Producer of Melange 2019, Mara De Los Santos, breaks through the remote outer space of our world of ideas, to start reviving our thirst for creativity… relax, take a deep breath… ready, set, imagine…

By Daniela Pavan & Tommaso Cartia

Truth is we never met but we imagine you. We imagine that you wake up in the morning, have breakfast or have no time for breakfast, and then get ready to work. We imagine you leaving your place and kissing your partner, or desiring one or enjoying the empowerment of being independent. We imagine you running to your workplace or comfortably sitting at your freelance desk at a lively co-working space. We imagine you checking your to-do list, attending meetings, making calls, having projects to finish and deadlines to meet, bosses to please or just yourself to please in the most bossy-ble way. We imagine you having clients to deal with, colleagues to connect with, share work and life with, share nothing at all and disagree with. We imagine you having a drink after work with those colleagues you share work and life with or nothing at all, or if it’s your lucky day, with your best friend who you haven’t seen in ages, who lives just a few train stops away from you. We imagine you getting back home and having dinner while binge watching your new favorite shows, or possibly sharing time with your loved one, desired one, or simply employing your independent master chef skills. We imagine you getting ready to go to bed, brushing your teeth, reading a book… is your brain shutting down or it is suddenly awakening? The question now is: are you happy with the day you just had, loving it for what it is, or you are wondering about all the things that could have been? 
Are we imagining it, or are you? Why are you doing the things you do? Who gave to your life the shape it has now? We imagine it was you, your imagination, the output of what you dreamed for yourself.

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Our name, Creative Pois-On, is inspired by the illustrious artist YaYoi Kusama, who once said: “A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colorful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can’t stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement…! Polka-dots are a way to infinity.” So, we named ourselves after the concept of polka dots, because life is made by people who are somehow connected, and people get ideas… but what is a single idea if it cannot be connected creatively to other ideas? 

This Podcast is an original idea by Daniela Pavan and Tommaso Cartia, with the collaboration of Costanza Biasibetti

Entrepreneur, Forbes Contributor, Design and Innovation Manager and Strategic Leader, Daniela was born and raised in Italy, and she is now based in NYC, that’s why she is blessed with both Italian artistic passion and NYC’s unique edge! Currently she covers the role of General Manager at The Ad Store NYC, creative agency part of an international network, and is also member of the M.A.C. Lab (Lab for Management of Arts and Culture) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She is also Co-Founder of the Ca’ Foscari University Alumni– NYC Chapter and a collaborates with Ruler Art, Art Gallery based in NYC. A bridge builder between the world of Creatives and the Business environment, through her Forbes articles she explores creativity, innovation and storytelling.

Italian Communications and Media Specialist, Journalist and Writer based in New York Tommaso Cartia, has over a decade of experience in the media, publishing and the entertainment business field. He is currently an Editor of the American version of Red Carpet Magazine as well as the Founder of his own editorial project, The Digital Poet. Tommaso is also a well-known Copywriter and a PR executive specifically within the Italian and the Italian American community in New York City. He is also the writer of the lyrical memoir “Reincarnazione Sentimentale”, published in Italy in 2014, and he has been working extensively as a bilingual Italian/English – journalist for different publications. His articles span a variety of topics including art, entertainment, lifestyle and food. He has interviewed celebrities of the caliber of Gina Lollobrigida, Michael Cunningham, Erica Jong, Valeria Golino, to name a few. He also worked as a producer for movies and as a digital marketer and copywriter for film companies and festivals. 

Creative Pois-On is going to be an unusual podcast, because Tommaso and Daniela will be not just creative directors but also guests… every month a different host, a different voice, will come to converse with them on a specific topic such as imagination, connection, transformation, enlightenment… to name a few. This is because Creative Pois-On strongly believes in the power of generating and sharing ideas to connect the dots and immerse ourselves in the multi-layered, multi-dimensional and overly digitalized world we live in. 

Each topic will be discussed from a creative, cultural and even business perspective in order to explore how much creativity could be crucial and essential in any fields, from the most corporate to the most artistic and independent ones.

After a brief introduction that we call The Creative Briefing, Daniela will discuss the monthly topic by connecting the dots between the world of business and creativity, exploring its potentials and providing insights and ideas with her “The Creative Bridge” episode. While Tommaso will give voice to a more humanistic talk with interpolations with the world of entertainment, iconography and Pop Culture: “The Creative Being”.

The final episode, The Creative Interview, will be graced by a special guest who embodies and successfully represents the treated topic.

New York will be Creative Pois-On’s solid ground, a kaleidoscopic platform that interconnects the entire world with its variety and complexity in terms of dimensions, groups, ethnicities, businesses and artistic venues.

We imagine you comfortably letting yourself go to the timeless power of your creativity. 

Let’s get started… ready, set, imagine!