Learning Unlearning: Who told you you couldn’t draw? | Alex Box | TEDxUBIWiltz

’Who told you you couldn’t draw ?’ a talk on how to unlearn the learnt . When the first creative blocks are built, what happens when play is policed. How to be free, play and enjoy creative freedom of expression without consciousness. How I have become a play permission giver and learnt to be comfotable with the dark to truly be open to the light of happiness and build interactive art to help others find there lost play. Alex Box studied and exhibited as an installation artist before training to become a make-up artist, her main focus being on the relationship between bodies and the environment. As a make-up artist, she went on to explore this relationship, fusing art, science, nature and the magical for designers such as Gareth Pugh, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and Chanel. She is also a regular contributor to Vogue, Numéro, i-D, Dazed and Confused, AnOther Magazine and V. Alex is known for pushing and blurring the boundaries between technology, art, and commerce with both visionary d