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Thursday, December 1, 2011

motivation

What motivates you to work with your hands and create things?

I'm always really proud when I finish knitting an item and feeling the fabric I've just made. This fabric made from a single strand that's been woven into itself to make something like a hat or a scarf or some mittens.

But that isn't my motivation.

I'm always trying to learn some kind of craft that I can sell for money. Because I am an artist and the work of artists deserves pay.

But that isn't my motivation.

I fill my life with projects because the alternative is to sit down and waste my time playing Angry Birds or watching daytime tv.

But that isn't my motivation.

I create because that is what I was created to do.