Conversations on Practice

In this conversation, Armenian filmmaker and multimedia artist Emily Mkrtichian joins Alma to reflect on There Was, There Was Not—a filmic meditation on memory, belonging, and the endurance of love. The film traces the lives of four women from Artsakh, a historically Armenian land that has since been blockaded, invaded, and ethnically cleansed. What began as a quiet portrait of daily life evolved...

In this episode, Alma is joined by Alexandra Fuller, a visual artist and poet based in the Utah desert whose practice moves between photography, installation, and text to explore impermanence, climate, and the shifting relationship between people and place. Together they reflect on the arc of a two-year creative exchange that began as an epistolary poetry practice and unfolded into friendship, col...

In this episode, Alma is joined by Ben Mustin, an organizational ecologist, systems thinker, and facilitator whose curiosity has led him from organizational consulting into deeper creative practice through dreams and the unconscious. They explore how practice has shifted his relationship with self — from control toward surrender, from striving toward receptivity. They touch on shadow, engagement w...

Alma sits down with artist Ceara Metlikovec who shares how a natural practice of collecting and relating to materials from the natural world evolved into an intentional practice of creating altars in her home and studio, and how this radically transformed both her creative practice and her relationship to self.  Alma and Ceara explore the nature of sacred space, the practice of receiving guidance...