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There is so much access to inspiration. Kids create intuitively, in a way that rivals top engineers, despite having the most limited and restricted view of the world. I crave that emptiness.
Make shadow puppets, clean your room. Be bored. Biblically, creation started from nothing.
5d ago
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a lot of hobbies pushed to us are surrounded by consumption. we watch shows, movies. consume albums, buy clothes and items, etc. not that there's anything inherently wrong with consuming, but consumption without creation breeds dullness.
we all have creativity within us. it gets beaten out when there are expections to commoditize your creativity. you feel the need to be the best, to be perfect in the first shot at something.
creation without the expectation of consumption is how we push back. i write poetry, even if it sucks. i drew a pig going to bed in a room full of disproportinately sized furniture because i felt like it. i'm looking to start dancing again.
the world has so much that's yet to be made, and we're blessed with the ability to contribute to that body of art.
Jan 8, 2025
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Pull a joni mitchell and engage in arts that differ from your primary to inform it at a later time.
If you lean more toward visual arts try poetry, song writing, music making, acting/performances for the self, crochet, clay, claymation, videography, sound collection, whistling, discovering new sounds you can make etc.
Often when i want to create but i feel tired or uninspired i try to use still life or my surroundings— BUT If thats boring i ask myself a question and let my train of thought ramble -> connecting that rambling to my pen on paper
Honestly setting your inner critic to rest and creating things that are imperfect is actually incredible!
More often than not letting first drafts be final for a moment allows you to discover what you crave to create.
Apr 11, 2024
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Basically, that “cathedrals are everywhere” thing— see a rec from Baby from a few days ago haha
To be receptive to this, I just have to work at creating things all the time whether I feel inspired or not. Inspiration won’t strike, it’ll seep in from everywhere as long as the practice doesn’t stop. There’s so much to take from the seemingly mundane world that it can actually feel impossible to keep up with all the things I want to try to create.
What excites me is the stuff I can’t explain, but could attempt to convey with art. Inspiration comes as a fragment of an idea that I can’t place or a feeling that’s too wide to grasp all at once. If I understand it instantly, if the idea is complete and I can name it, it might be nice but it is not interesting. If the feeling is open ended, then I can try to recreate that little mystery, like an experiment, or to complete it, and see where that brings me.
I don’t think of the things and people I love as muses, but I guess I’m bound to notice more of what inspires me in the places I frequent the most and people I surround myself with. This is all really vague and rambling, but basically it’s usually little things like the way light hits the branches of a favorite tree or the way someone just picked up a cup.
May 6, 2024
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I sometimes worry that I wouldn’t be such a feminist if I had bigger tits.
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My toaster is having a bad week so she doesn’t have the energy to hold the lever down anymore. Which means I have to stand there pressing it down for three minutes making sure my toast doesn’t burn. I used to take that time for granted, now it’s being robbed of me by my broken toaster. Trying to give her grace.
Feb 26, 2025
Give your beauty to the people who can stare back in real-time and give you theirs. I rarely think I look like myself in pictures and that’s because I look like me outside where my expressions harmonize with the sunlight.
This portrait of Dorothy Beridge, (by Joseph Wright of Derby) is on display in MIA and they actually have a plaque describing her as having plain features, which is the worst insult of the 18th century. She‘s trapped in a museum where the professionals call her uggo. I want to meet her in person where those features are meant to be seen. But, she gave that to her friends and family, not the strangers passing her by on their way to the elevators.
Mar 2, 2025