Sometimes I feel like the creative urge is both a blessing and a curse. This usually happens at times when I feel so full of thoughtful energy and inspiration, I just don't know where to direct my focus. There's just so many great things I could be doing. There's things I want to paint and things I want to journal and things I want to write. Photos I want to take and then a million different things I want to do with them.....stitch them and collage them and use them to tell stories. There are things I want to sew and manipulate and create and build, sometimes the ideas come so quickly I have to stop and draw them all before I forget, and even then I know I won't actually pursue even half.
There are just too many inspiring things....photos that are so aesthetically appealing I want to duplicate them or add into them and draw attention to them. Others just give me some sort of feeling that I want to capture and communicate somehow. There are techniques I want to explore, to see what I can do with them, what I else I can come up with. Even certain materials just beg to be used, their colours, their textures so tempting I feel like I just have to do something with them.
The problem is, how's a girl to find time for all of it? Even if I didn't have to cook and eat and earn a little moolah and clean up once in a while, there wouldn't be the time. Even if I completely shut out my friends and family and the beautiful world and refused to leave the house, it couldn't be done. (And then, I think the inspiration would go as well. How can one continue to spew colourful life without taking any in to begin with?) This is where the curse part of it comes in; having this ocean of inspiration and so many ideas, and barely being to dip in a toe.
Even if I did, someday, work out a life for myself where I could pursue my artistic endeavours to my heart's content, can someone as unfocused as myself ever really become successful?? Would I be able to develop anything to the extent I would like if I have so many other ideas? Does that 'jack of all trades, master of none' concept apply here??
How does one decide what to master? Do they have to?
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About Me
- Eleanor Magpie
- My name is Miranda Thomas. I am an artist and a crafter who loves to work in the textile medium. (I also love to write and draw and glue and snap, but that's whole 'nother story.) I have a small business called Eleanor Magpie Textile Design, which is my excuse to be more creative more often. I'm inspired every day by the beauty in the world around me; in people and places and things and life. I hope I can make this show in the work I do.
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