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Oscar Winner "Shaun Tan" on Creativity, Originality, Dreams, and Hometown
Shaun Tan is the Australian author and illustrator behind The Arrival, The Lost Thing, and Tales from Outer Suburbia, and the Academy Award-winning director of the short film adaptation of The Lost Thing. For over two decades, he's built entire wordless worlds out of a single doodle, using metaphor rather than direct depiction to explore migration, identity, and belonging.In this conversation, we talk about:- The difference between a drawing that's merely meaningful and one that's genuinely alive- Why creativity is something you do, not something you think your way into- How dreams — and a…
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