Inspiration is sometimes abundant and there are times where it’s just hard to find. Creativity, though, it is something that is always there... ready to pave the way for inspiration. Creativity from without can be achieved as simply as going outside for a walk, observing and taking in all your surroundings. No matter where a person is, in the small town of Davis or urban jungle of New York City, there is potential for inspiration if you look deep or creatively enough around you.
Finding creativity from without allows a designer to interact and connect with nature, the natural human world (which includes manmade structures), and people through those means. Being in tune with the movement, colors, shapes, and sounds of the world around us allows creativity to flourish before our eyes. We see and feel the sleek and rough textures, smooth and jagged edges, and geometric shapes all around that pleases the mind in its complexity. I use photography, like many, to achieve creativity from without. There is beauty in everything. I like to approach creativity in a minimalistic way from capturing clear skies to show the shape of birds on telephone lines, intricate branches of tumbleweed to convey movement, an lost feeling through a small tube, cracks and raindrops on desert crust that looks like a different sort of sky, a reflective shadow, and the like. Sometimes all a person need to do is go outside, walk around, observe, and find ways to be creative with the world around you; find a connection.
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| Birds on telephone lines on a clear day |
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| Tumble weed |
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| Another kind of sky. |
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| Small tube. |
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| Shadow looking in. |
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| Intricate framework of a telephone pole. |
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[images] Kimberly Losenara
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