I’m fairly certain there are 47 interconnected flowcharts driving the creative process in my brain. 🧭 Also, a non-working compass is involved. I like to think that I actively seek out inspiration but maybe I’m just curious about a lot of things.

A lot of ideas happen when I combine something from one realm & another. Like I might connect something from an article about making silver earrings and a memory of plastic fringe on the handlebars of a banana seat bicycle.

Some of the things I find inspiring —> maps, lyrics, typography, graffiti, color, flowers & leaves, abstract landscapes, concert posters, amusement parks (parks visited when I was young — i.e with wooden roller coasters), sunsets, data visualizations, mark-making, yearbook photographs, textures, bokeh & ogees. And a zillion more things. And as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts — the act of taking photographs (or looking for things to photograph).

I think all of the interesting things we notice are stored but the retrieval system is often random. 😆 I don’t sit down and decide to make art based on x y z. It’s always some kind of mash-up. And it goes in one direction and often shifts to another.

Mini Link-Love

Jane Davies has a thoughtful post about inspiration & creative work
Roz Stendahl writes about hesitation to start a new project
Kinetic typography experiments by Nikita Iziev
Art-making is your birthright by Ingrid Murray
Yay for libraries making lists of banned books

You art not imagining it — since I started National Blog Post Month on day 3, I decided to go for 30 days from that point because I want that 30 as a denominator! I shifted the challenge sideways. 🙃➡️ The concept is to do a blog post every day. San of the in between is mine is facilitating.

This week I’ll do a wrap-up post & look back at what materialized.

Where do you find inspiration?

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