{"id":607,"date":"2006-11-15T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T20:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/inspiration\/"},"modified":"2006-11-15T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T20:47:15","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"getting inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last few days, I’ve had several people ask what inspires me so I thought it might be a good idea to post about it, i.e. give it some actual thought. Years ago I took my son to a talk given by Philip Pullman<\/a>. He was absolutely brilliant. One of the things he talked about was that people often ask where he gets his ideas. He said something along the line of- the ideas come to my desk and if I’m there, I get them. If I’m not, I don’t. I loved that explanation! So much of the art is just being at your desk and working. I googled “Philip Pullman inspiration” and I didn’t get that story but got this explanation<\/a>. (the first paragraph) Not as funny but also excellent.<\/p>\n

I am inspired by materials (these days beautiful fabrics), things that I touch (robots with the sewing notions for details), the seasons, the little stuff going on in my life everyday, some odd thing that I’ve read about (example- fat fairies), the photos of what everyone else is doing all over the craft blogging world and Flickr, a new technique that I’ve learned, my family, color. And if I am working on something, and if it doesn’t have a face, I probably won’t stay interested for too long! If I hit a dead end, I have 2 ways of recharging that usually work. I go back to my older work, look through it and try to come up with a new approach or simply do another one. I have found lots of inspiration for the postcards by going through old photos of my pottery. The other technique is to go through all my materials. That way I get 2 things accomplished- clear out some stuff and almost always find something that sparks an idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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