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Inspiration #3

Today and forever my inspiration is magical and fantastic people. The radiant, effervescent energy bouncing between one another sending waves into the universe

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Blog Entry #3

01.11.2025 12:24 PM

This week has been busy! Hectic! It's been my first week "working full time" in a veryyyy long time. I thankfully have a very non-traditional lifestyle to call "full-time" but nonetheless I haven't quite had the time (active energy) to sit down and write. Because of how busy I have been I've been slipping a little bit on what apps I'm letting myself fall to. My sleep schedule has been completely out of whack and I'm finding out how to rebuild my routine with this newfound life.

I've found it quite refreshing and exciting to be getting off Instagram a lot more. I use it to briefly check messages, update my CF about the first day at my new job, and post the work that is finally coming out to be seen by the world. After my first day in the office, I did find myself scrolling... a bit this morning as well. But in talking to my therapist, I was reminded and affirmed that this progress is still a massive step towards my goal. In my yoga and meditation classes the teachers have been really helping me change the way I acknowledge things that could be seen as "negative". If my mind is wandering during meditation, I acknowledge it and allow myself to move on. So in my practice of getting off social media, I'm doing the same.

I have yet to find myself inspired to create things based on my surroundings yet (it's been a week so I'd expect this) but by spending less time on my phone I've been using my time when I'm commuting or just walking to take more time to examine what I'm seeing. I'm noticing more of the little details that might be intriguing or make me stop, even if just for a moment, and think about where I am, what I'm seeing, etc.

Two things I really loved-

The colors of of the tiling done at the Canal stop. (RW platform) The circle within the center of the C, and the paint that dripped and wasn't cleaned while they painted the piping and ceiling above.

Same day I saw this truck turning the corner with a ton of icicles still dragging down it. I was surprised they were still frozen as I'm sure the components of trucks like that get quite warm.

On another note, this week has been really fascinating. I've found myself with quite a bit more energy and excitement than I usually have. After work the past few days I've had the energy to feel as if I could do some more which is something is quite rare for my but an exciting development. I definitely think my vitamins have helped but I also thing this mindless, overstimulation I find through technology might have something to do with it. As I work more and more to getting away from technology I'm hoping I can make a little basket, or just a space outside of my room to leave my computers, iPad, phone etc. So that when I go to bed my space isn't being interfered with from them. In times when I leave my phone outside of my bedroom I notice how much deeper and easier I sleep so I want to explore taking that further.

I have so many more thoughts, and could continue to write and share but honestly I think I've exhausted what needs to be shared on here. So for now I leave those thoughts for the Tumblr void to absorb and ponder.

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Inspiration #2

01.05.2025 10:17 AM

I've been thinking nonstop about the vintage Japanese boro textile. The front is in the most beautiful Indigo pattern, done with tsutsugaki resist. Something so calls me to this piece, so calming and centering. But even more special is the boro that's done. A symphony of different patterns and pieces all working to keep this piece of art together. The work and care put into pieces like this rings true to how I see people. We're all being held together by different pieces and patterns that keep us from falling apart, lol.

I really wanna buy this piece cause I can't looking at it

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Blog Entry #2

01.05.2025 9:51 AM

Yesterday was a lovely and inspiring day. I got lunch with a new friend and then spent the rest of my day with my girls in the studio. I am so endlessly inspired by those goofs (by that I mean people I love so deeply and am endlessly inspired by) and how we exist. We spent the last 40 or so minutes listening to music from the early 2000-10s and dancing our asses off. That's where my inspirational moment came from yesterday, I love how dancing feels in your eyes and soul, the blurring of your senses fused with deep elation and release. The power to just let your body be what it is, move how it wants, act how it needs to. I think dancing alone, and even more, with your friends is one of the most beautiful things we can do. In those moments you can completely shed your fear and anxieties of being seen and just let yourself feel the energy between you all. You can laugh at yourself and not take anything seriously, which is so needed. Last week I spent an hour basically naked prancing around my house in my new knee-high patent pleaser heels dancing to music I love and trying to find ways to feel sexy and connected to my body. While I was mostly just laughing at how ridiculous I looked in my laptop camera I ended my night so happy, and feeling just a bit more comfortable in my body in that moment.

It's been a while since I've done a late night in the studio and it was exactly what I needed. I think I've built this imaginary schedule, not really making myself work past the moments of discomfort when I'm not sure if I know what I want to do or what I have the energy for, but in the late nights where I just let myself wander through where I can go I always find myself getting caught back into the magic of it all. I am endlessly grateful and in awe that I get to have a studio space and that the people I share it with are so inspiring. It's such a beautiful energy to work alongside them, whether in silence or just running our shit.

I think that's all I really need to share for now, maybe more later

xx

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Inspiration #1

01.03.2025 3:17 PM

Today, while i was thinking about what I would talk about and write here. I was on the train home with my big ass bags of groceries and the light was hitting me so beautifully. I loved the way it flickered on my kale and as I looked out the window it rippled over the cars and buses on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Here's my photo submission today:

Isn't kale just so gorgeous

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ADMIN REVEAL!

01.03.2025 2:42 PM

As part of the new year, I decided to see what being offline and out of touch would do for my creative practice, which seems backward to then make this blog. BUT my point in all of this is I've found it distrusting to myself that when I look for inspiration I go to my phone, I look through my saved posts on Instagram or I go to a Pinterest board I have created. To me, this feels like I'm not actually making things unique to my experience but am just filtering current and already made pieces through my own brain and ripping them off. (that's being harsh but to a sense it is how I feel) This is kind of how everyone does it nowadays. Nothing is "original" and trends are created by multiple designers taking one idea and doing it "in their own way" and bam you got a trend.

So through this experiment, and in turn this blog, I want to work on processing my own experiences, my day-to-day, research, and realizations of myself, into the inspiration of my work. This already has also left me with... a lot of downtime and in turn, a lot of wall staring. (It's literally been like 1 day and I'm feeling all sorts of things) My hope is that this blog can be a place for me to process as well, and share pieces of my day that I find inspirational.

So here's my idea of what might happen, idk it's an experiment, let me lay out my plan, and create a hypothesis. Because science!

This blog will be a place I come to write, about my day, what things caught my attention, share photos of things I saw and enjoyed, and yes probably share pictures I feel fab in to fulfill my selfish desire for attention (though honestly who the fuck is gonna read this).

My hypothesis: I'll first feel lost, annoyed, and probably spiral. Not knowing what to do with my time, and feeling like I need to fill it with other mindless activities. BUT pushing past that I'll find myself being a bit more present with my time. As I continue to grow and navigate my creative practice I want to deepen my knowledge of my history and culture. Actively finding books to read, events to go to, workshops, classes, etc. All these things can help me work towards better using my time.

That wasn't really a hypothesis but I think you get the gist of what I'm trying to say. This will be my digital diary, like a true dweeb, where I can dump everything that makes up my life. And I think by creating the idea of an audience, or just the fact that this feels like I'm talking to someone or something will help create some accountability.

Okay that's enough of my rambles... here's a photo of me, today on my way home from getting groceries when I realized I should do this and felt I looked disheveled in a hot way, hence the name.

BYE