It might not sound much different but it gives me focus. Broad focus, but still.
I’m not taking sewing lessons because I like to learn about sewing. I think I end up cursing just about every time I sit down at the machine do and there have been more than a few tears. Holding a stack of napkins I’ve made. Looking at an ever-growing pile of baby bibs. It’s rewarding.
It’s tangible.
I work in a field where you can’t touch and feel what I make. (I guess you could touch my computer screen, but it would lead to fingerprints and me being angry.) When I print a photograph, I can point to something I captured. When I give someone a cake I decorated, I can point to what I did. When I make a piece of jewelry, I can hold it in my hand and show it off.
I have five more weeks of classes and during that time I’m going to be creating two projects. Three if I can work it out right, I’m a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. The teacher is giving us just enough instruction to get us started but not so much that we know exactly what we’re creating. It’s liberating.
My screenprinting instructor |
Screenprinting vacuum table |
Anonymous
“Now I’m wondering if her constant acquisition of new skills and hobbies was an opportunity to create and if I’m striving towards that same unreachable goal.”
Why unreachable? You ARE creating…seems to me that you continue reaching the goal everyday.
Kate
You’re right – unreachable was probably the wrong word. I meant it in that the acquisition of new skills never ends because there is always something new to learn. So maybe instead of “unreachable”, a better word is “never-ending.” What do you think?