This past week, I made a concerted effort to do something that I rarely do and that I thought might invoke inspiration. A friend and I went to the maker space to make art and design our own sweatshirt. I ended up struggling a lot because I could not find a design I really liked and wanted to wear. I didn’t know where to start or what to look up to find a design that I would like because I went into it with a blind eye and didn’t think about what I wanted beforehand. I eventually found a design I liked, but I felt like I was just settling for that one because I couldn’t find anything else I was ecstatic about. Once I found the design, I had to reprint it at least three times because it wasn’t cutting correctly on the computer editor. I started to feel very frustrated and discouraged because I wasn’t finding much inspiration in creating the sweatshirt because I hadn’t even started yet and it had already been a while. I successfully printed the design and started to carve it out on the material that would be placed onto the fabric of the sweatshirt. There was another problem. The tweezers that were supposed to pull the excess material off and make the design pop were very faulty and could barely pull the material off. It was taking me a long time and I eventually gave up and decided to come back another day when I had thought more carefully about what I was trying to do and what my goals were. This was something that I wasn’t expecting, especially because I went into it trying to be inspired. Although this was a failed attempt at inspiration, I now know for the future what I will need to do to make a sweatshirt and how I can potentially allow myself to be successfully inspired.
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