I
received an e-newsletter from Weaving Today and the title was "What
Drives Us to Weave?" It's an excellent post and I would encourage
everyone to read it for it discussed what drove the writer to take up
the craft. It got me thinking (as any good post should) about what
drives those of us who live to craft and create artwork to actually work
on art and crafty projects.
For
me - a large part of what drives me is the desire to create something.
It's not just making something fun - which every project I do
inevitably is - but a real need to make something from nothing. It
doesn't matter if the material is foodstuff, beads, yarn,
eggs, paper, paint or any other of the myriad of possibilities. The
actual act of creation is what I'm driven to accomplish.
I
also find that when I am not able to work on something I can get very
"testy" (as my better half so carefully puts it). Leo actually asked me
just last weekend when I was going to paint again. Now I don't know if
he was genuinely curious or if it was his way of saying "you need to
chill out!" but he was absolutely correct in questioning me. Life can
get away from us as we rush here and there trying to get as much
accomplished as possible so it doesn't all pile up into a huge mountain
of things
that have to get done. The whole process of creation makes us slow down
to consider the possibilities of what we are making and how to make
what our imaginations have come up with.
So
my question for this post to all of you out there is - What drives you
to create? Post a comment below to start our conversation.
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Keeping busy in the studio calms my nerves...
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