We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Carson Williams. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Carson below.

Hi Carson, thanks for joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Profile Convergence is a sculpture installation that I worked on in the spring of 2025, and to me it represents the culmination of my ideas and artistic concepts from the past 2-3 years. In another way, it represents the logical end to the body of work that I established and explored during that period. I had created self portraits using moldmaking techniques and 3D scanning as well as more abstract landscape explorations through print and digital media which also held 3D scanning central to their methodology. Profile Convergence brings together these techniques and ideas into one piece, which represents a digital relationship through physical moldmaking and digital object creation.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

My name is Carson Williams, and I received my BFA in sculpture and my BA in philosophy from Florida Atlantic University. I am currently a philosophy MA student at Louisiana State University, and my general project concerns the combination of aesthetics and epistemology. At the same time, I take an interdisciplinary approach to everything I create, and I am a very strong advocate for interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and multimedia pursuits in every sense. I create sculptures and multimedia artworks (usually through moldmaking and digital media) because I care about philosophy, and I write about aesthetics and epistemology because I care about art.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

In high school, I was actually part of a media arts program, where I spent the first half of my day at my academic school, taking my usual science, English, and math and then I would spend the second half of my day at my arts school, in the media arts program. It was here where I learned to love the interdisciplinary. We would learn methods of making which involved filmmaking, editing, music production, animation, digital art and graphic design. There were a few individual cliques within the program who enjoyed one of these mediums more than the others, though I often found myself floating between these cliques, making music when I liked, dabbling in graphic design, and producing a short film or two when I wanted. Even stepping outside of the media arts program, splitting my days in half to share my time between the arts and the traditional academics was also extremely fulfilling for me. This interdisciplinary network of experiences and education really ignited my love of the interdisciplinary.

Fast forward to my sophomore year of college: I am faced with choosing a major. I had taken most of my general ed classes and a couple of art courses here and there, which had been great up to that point. However, choosing between art and philosophy (which had become my favorite discipline within more traditional academia) was a circle I couldn’t square. I was appalled at the idea of having to choose between my arts education and a more traditional field. I knew that choosing both was out of the question, which pained me to know. So, out of protest for this excruciating fact, I chose both regardless. Against the wishes of the three advisors I met with, I decided I would write my own path and take the courses I needed to pursue both degrees at once.

Once this was decided, I was a force to be reckoned with at my university. I took 18 credits per semester on average (sometimes more) and powered my way through university, and all it cost were numerous all-nighters and the price of, let’s estimate, 50 Monster energy drinks by the end. Now, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this track to everyone, though I did learn something that may work as more general advice: it is essential that one invests the required time to each field (or hobby or passion or anything else in a similar vein) that they wish to specialize in. It is time that separates the jack of many trades and the master of many trades.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

Due to the nature of my experiences in undergrad and beyond, the goal of my broader creative journey is the advocacy of multidisciplinary and multimedia works and inspiring an interdisciplinary mindset in other creatives and thinkers.

However, my own personal creative journey began as an exploration of the complicated link between the digital and physical worlds and how we as experiencing subjects exist and experience both of these worlds, either simultaneously or in juxtaposition with one another. This manifested itself in sculptures and multimedia works which used moldmaking and 3D scanning as the central methods of making. This body of work found its logical conclusion in my sculpture installation, Profile Convergence, which has led my creative aspirations towards a new burgeoning set of ideas. I wish, in my future works, to explore the idea of the translation of objects of experience into the contexts and interpretations we take from them. For now though, before I make anything in this vein, I am in a period of critique and contemplation on my last body of work. From this self-reflection I hope to level up my physical methods of making and the clarity of my conceptual exploration.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://online.fliphtml5.com/jthps/iwqn/#p=1
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carsonwilliamsartist/?hl=en
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@carson.williams

Image Credits

Artist photo taken by Widney Charles-Pierre