<![CDATA[Q4: How much of your work is inspired by outside influences and how much is pure imagination?]]>Q4: How much of your work is inspired by outside influences and how much is pure imagination?

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A4 at risk of going deeply philosophical. Everything we experience influences our actions and imagination. So whilst we might not appreciate a direct link from something we saw, smelt, touched, 20 years ago, on something we make now, the link is there.

That said, museums, YouTube, and books are where I get a lot of my inspiration from....

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Q4: outside influence?

A4: it's at least 90% influence. I'm not that creative except perhaps in how I connect or remix things. My current project is inspired by movies and games in concept, and by a bar on my block in color scheme. My primary making years ago was cosplay, which is all about recreating an influence.

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Q4: How much of your work is inspired by outside influences and how much is pure imagination?

I'm going to say "both, 50/50", because I come up with ideas, but then base the execution of them of stuff I see - either real life objects for miniaturing, or patchwork patterns I see on YouTube for quilting.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/Janet_52square/statuses/116455721447395662https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sunny.garden/users/Janet_52square/statuses/116455721447395662Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:41:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Q4: How much of your work is inspired by outside influences and how much is pure imagination? on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:41:06 GMT]]>@MakersHour Pretty much everything I make comes from some kind of outside inspiration, I have a terrible imagination. But the inspiration I need can be fairly minimal, like the one word prompts for my textile art challenge, or a half remembered image of something.

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A4: I suppose it depends on what I’m doing. I’ve done a lot of Star Trek makes which is an even split I’d say. Then there’s my record player, which other than a vague design in my head, I pretty much made up as I went along!


@MakersHour

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