As a young child some of my earliest memories are drawing pictures and making crafts. Every morning I’d wake up at around 5am filled with ideas and inspiration. I’d get right to work and finish making things by 7:30 when my parents would get out of bed. I’d always be eager to surprise them with what I made when they wake up. I had a non-stop drive to create things. And though the stuff I’d make often revolved around my innocent look at the world with emphasis on my parents, construction machinery, and dinosaurs; it really hasn’t changed that much since then.
While the subject matter is now mostly different (Disregard the picture above) the energy is still very the same. I have always made art with things that I find interesting, which happens to be an awful lot of things. Sometimes I still make crafts to photograph afterwards. Recently I took a vintage pair of over-the-ear headphones and threw on some turn dials, radio antennas, and a couple coats of paint while imitating an old advertisement image of a portable Panasonic Radio.
This example wasn't to surprise my parents when they got out of bed, it was for a photo concept that I shot this past Summer. This is just one example of why it’s important to pay attention to your interests that you’ve had all along, because chances are if you enjoyed something a long time ago, you still might. Speaking of which, if you’ve read this far, why not comment below about what your favorite things to do were when you were young. I’d love to hear! Have you found a way to continue doing just that as an adult?
