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On Inspiration

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The other day I was asked the question,

"Where do you get the inspiration for your work"?

My answer was,

"Usually I just make a picture of whatever I'm looking at".

"All you can write is what you see"
-Woody Guthrie

In college I majored in History. I had the good fortune of not feeling like art was something I needed to focus on exclusively. Studying art was and is a pleasurable activity, and therefore I was and am able to study it without the need of a structured regiment. History is a great field of study for an artist for at least one really big reason. It makes "inspiration" a non-issue.

The main take-away you get from studying history is that there is no one right version of it. Its all about primary sources. A coin, or a poem, or a newspaper article, are all puzzle pieces for a historian to piece together a story. Then one day that historians version of the story becomes a primary source through which to analyze a history of the time it was written.

As an artist, I'm inspired by a desire to make as many primary sources as possible.

Donc, voila. For now.