Contemporary artist and creative producer Shala Akintunde is expanding, but the result leaves us grappling with our own abilities to lean into the unimaginable. In this episode we’ll talk about the creative process, the relative state of genius, and what happens when your desire to make space for something new pushes up against what was.
Shala's Seven Spoon is a wildly original collection of subversive character portraits featuring a stylish and irreverent teenage girl and her engaging social commentary. Seven Spoon was created by the Nigerian American musician/multimedia artist, Olusola "Shala." Akintunde. Shala. developed the satirical, "ambiguously-colored" teen character to celebrate under-represented girls in the media.