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Exploring the creative process: drawing with tea and ink

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Explore the creative process with artist Slobodan Dan Paich, an ex-Yugoslavian émigré. At his local tea shop in the Bay Area, he performs a daily ritual - producing simple drawings with tea and ink - which he discovered by accident. In this lesson, watch the short film Silent Crescendo, discover Slobodan’s fluid works of art, and delve into the causes and effects of creativity.

“The whole thing starts with big splashes of tea. It’s like some empty space inside the mountain.” What do you think he means by this?

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