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WHY I MAKE

I make because I love

I make because it feels natural

I make because I want to create

I make because I get excited

I make to challenge myself

I make to evolve

I make to control

I make because I learn

I make to communicate

I make to experiment

I make to show my fantasies

I make to show my fascinations

I make to explore the unexpected

WHY I MAKE

When I make I get the best feeling I can get. I feel a need to make, it is something naturally I have in my brain. The way that I've got a sort of sense for shapes, colors and materials. I don't know exactly what sort of sense it is. I think other makers know what I'm talking about. The heart for creating it's just there and when I'm making that heart is getting encouraged. I feel so pleased when I'm thinking about something and my hands create my thoughts. It is a way to express myself, to show my emotions. Sometimes it is a good way to clear my head. But I also can totally lose myself when I’m making, emotions show up I’m fully with my head in the making process. When I made an object or product, I get so satisfied with all the work I've put in a project and seeing the results afterwards. It feels even more satisfying when other people react on my project. That someone has questions or thoughts about my work. When that happens I feel connected.

I make because I want to challenge myself. I want to improve myself in every way I can. I will learn new skills and I know I will never stop learning. Because I challenge myself I learn every day, I know more about techniques, skills, experiments and about myself. I know that I will never feel bored and that I will never stop learning. I want to develop, It's also my goal to evolve my brain my skills and me as a person as much as I can.

I make because I have so many fantasies, I see figures in clouds, in stains, in scrawls. I know a lot of creative brains and especially kids have this gift. I found out that this is a psychic phenomenon called: ‘'pareidolia The reason for this phenomenon is probably that the brains needs to make connections between different elements, even if they actually don't exist. When I experiment with materials this pareidolia thing in my brain gets really stimulated. I get so excited when I just do something and I turns out in something I've never thought about.

The uncontrolled is a fascination, especially trying to find out how you can control the uncontrolled. To understand why a drop of ink is not the same on each piece of paper. Why does is go like this? How can I change it? Can I control it? Can I add other liquids to make a different effect? Maybe there is another way to not just drop the ink on the paper. The way things go always inspired me, the way colors fade out the way colors mix. How dominoes fall down, how water is moving. How the wax in a lava lamp moves?

Don’t you think that the unknown is way more exciting then the stuff we already know? It’s much more fun to be surprised by your own inventions. To show the unexpected, to experiment with something you don’t know yet. When I make the process it is just as important as the final object. That’s because the process is the understanding of the unexpected.

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