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To sit there and just pump out one after the other is kind of counterintuitive to the entire idea of mixed media or fiber arts. Right? The idea is that you take your time and you put in love and thought into something.
vBEING IN THE ARTS INDUSTRY WHERE I DO DESIGN FOR COMMISSION OR I HAVE A CLIENT — I DID FIND MYSELF WHEN PICKING UP ANOTHER WAY OF DOING ART, MY BRAIN IMMEDIATELY GOES “MAYBE I COULD SELL THIS.”
I'M THINKING: “I HAVE TO CAPITALIZE OFF OF THINGS.”
I NEED TO RESIST THAT, "I JUST LIKE DOING THIS FOR FUN."
Right.
I also think that it's really hard because I've struggled with this. The hardest part of all of it for me is creating a piece of clothing...And now I have to then create media off of that clothing. I feel like the whole point of me doing this is... I wanna create as much as I can, but also in the most sustainable way I can.
And that is not by just going to Joanne's and buying hundreds of skeins of yarn because I can. You know what I mean? I feel like there's this pressure from social media to post as often and as much as you can, but that's not really possible when it takes months to make a sweater.
I feel like I'm struggling. I have to think, it's okay that you don't post every other day on your Instagram because, like, I'm not a full time business. I don't have 500 employees where I can just post whatever I want. I've been trying to be more mindful of that.
I can post part of the process rather than the whole complete product and still get engagement. I just I love that people are learning how to crochet and knit, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that because I think there's something really empowering about taking a deeply feminine hobby that's probably been looked at as lesser than male hobbies and reclaiming it.
But I also think people need to understand the depth and the generations of women that have come before us — not always specifically women. Although it has been majority women. But, taking that history into account when you're making things.
I feel like there's some people that I know that are just cranking stuff out, and I feel it's so important to realize the whole purpose of making your own clothes is to slow down the over consumption that so many people are taking part of and reducing your environmental impact.
And then to just go to Joanne's or Michaels and buy a ton of cheap yarn, made by a large company isn't any better than just buying a beanie from Target in the first place. You know?
There's nothing wrong with buying cheap yarn because that's sometimes what you can afford, but it's like: Okay. I only need three skeins. I don't need 10. And I don't need to make eight beanies. I can make one.