Inspiration strikes, I think, in unusually strange places and moments.

Washing dishes, cleaning the house, in the toilet or shower or laying in bed trying to sleep..

Instead something creates itself in my minds eye.. I’ll think of an artwork or lyrics or something creative and I haven’t got a pen handy to write it down. I don’t want to get out of bed, it’s warm.. the pen is too far away. 

A positive push to create something new isn’t usual. Though I’ve had a couple of those lately , it is more often after a long day full of anxiety , often depression and just before birds start tweeting that the morning has arrived that I’ll create something, though I should be sleeping. A way of letting out what I’ve bottled up I guess. Not that you can tell from the artwork created, or that I can see that anyone would know I was feeling down when the piece was created. A bit like a happy smiling photograph of someone might mask perfectly how they’re truely feeling. 

This artwork is a perfect example of the these strange inspirations . Showering after an extremely long day full of stress. My illness also getting the best of me.  My hair falling out a little as a result which I put onto the shower wall so I remember to take it to the bin at the end.

I often see pictures in the patterns that lie on the wall shaped by my hair. This is the first I’ve turned into art & I will create more, though I hope not many; I’d like my hair to stop falling out! 

Can you tell how I was feeling through this artwork ? 

~ Phunkylady 

Strange inspirations series 

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