Maxwell Pearce
speaker
317 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Maxwell Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It really is why I prefer used materials.
If it's brand new, there's not much of a history behind its usage.
But it's a way, particularly with the shoelaces, it's a way for me to have a little bit more of a universal representation.
The play is kind of like the glue between both of those worlds for me.
The play or the playful mindset allows me to view those materials as something more than what we put in a basket or what we score in the end zone.
It's just something way more than that.
Yeah, like I think what's interesting is so much of my athletic experience has been, you could say, weighed down with a certain seriousness.
And once I was able to view play as more of a tool rather than the antithesis of seriousness, then I think it was a lot easier for me to combine them.
the healthiest balance that you can have is keeping a certain level of seriousness, but combined with play.
I think if it's all play, sometimes you can lose sight of the direction.
But if you maintain a certain level of
seriousness, more so in being serious about achieving like a certain outcome or serious about kind of expanding your boundaries, then I think that balance can really be helpful for any field that you're in.
It doesn't have to be sports or art.
There are certain, there are different forms of play, at least in my, from my perspective in this.
I'm very playful with the materials that I use, both physically, but also conceptually.
Like I view basketball as something more than, you know, something that you dribble and I put it on the canvas.
When I get to a creative block,
my, I guess my focus on what I'm playing with shifts.
So I'm not playing with the materials as much as I'm playing with the perspective or with my approach on how I can use those materials.
And I think being a little bit more playful and loose with your approach allows you to
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