Exploring the Creative Mind: MES's Perspective on Inspirations

Inspiration of MES from the atelier:

Creations and pieces of art, all have inspiration in my humble opinion. I used to think art was redundant, to the point where an art professor was quite cross with me. He expressed his discontent by giving me failing marks and being ruthless with his criticism of my assignments. It was not until I got older and found myself admiring orate kitchenware for the first time that I understood art in my way. It was beautiful, practical and useful. Color, pattern and design had my irises expanding. This mundane object was wonderful to look at, pleasing to the eye and handy. The patterns that were drawn from nature drew me the most, from Polynesian tattoos and the Minoan pottery designs, and here in the current era. People and nature seem to be intertwined. Teapots from the east and west with wonderful mofis using nature as its muse. Wooden cookie molds, even soap formulations with folk recipes. There was an artisanal presence in science as well. I began to see it even in pictures with my husband, then fiance, in photos. Small moment, not significant by any means, but important just the same. I saw it again in myth and fairytales. I felt the feeling looking at family photos. By no stretch of the imagination am I, a photogenic person, but it was there nonetheless. Thusly, the Journey doth begin. I started looking at the ingenuity of the people of ages long past. From architecture to cooling system, how to build comfortable gardens and homes, without our modern conveniences. Clothing built with the environment and comfort in mind, versatile in design. Jewelry is symbolic and purposeful. If these objects, pretty, insignificant in the time of their conception, loved by the artisan that gave the time to create them, but by passing through generations, gain meaning through age. Gaining some wear and maybe an additional embellishment or two. More importantly, gaining love and insight. I found the same in people: I once read in a particularly insightful comic from Korea, that luck is just a matter of an opportunity being at the time an individual is ready to seize it. Those who aren't ready fail to gain what those who were ready for their opportunity. In the psychology of money, for every person who experiences the gains of luck, there will also experience the downfall of luck, known as risk. There is beauty present in this as well. Reading the passage before as words makes it seem pointless, just insight. Inversely read the passage in pictures and see two people standing on the knife's mirrored edge, the color quality differing greatly based on the envisioner' life and cultural experiences. Add a circle to the image, and the side of the mirrored edge is forever inverting and interchanging. I suppose this is what the Greek and other ancients thought of when they had a deity of luck. If this seems like a running thought, that because it is, but I promise there is a connection. That the inspiration of art comes from all places, every person's inspiration is different, just medieval groups of people were practical in living and using innovations for living, or the ancients have a deity to ascribe an aspect of their lives to, and satirical writers' reflections on society. All is art. All come from inspiration. This is the reasoning and inspiration for my creation. The artisanal works I can speak for are my own. This blog or public broadcast of my thoughts is really to detail my process and maybe to remind me not to give up.

With love and in the endeavour to create a mess,

M.E Sui