Lyn Bishop : Sharing Secrets

Last week I wrote about inspiration. It’s always there, and finding it takes looking around at our surroundings with fresh eyes. Whether it be the urban grit of a city, the organic forms of nature, or whatever it may be that catches your fancy, it’s there for us to tap into at any given time.

I’m always on the lookout for the simple, unsophisticated details of life. I am often drawn to the elements that most people will overlook. I collect them through photographic documentation or by physically gathering any interesting objects I find.

I’m in the studio this week, sorting through these found treasures and scanning them for future use. Each object is attached with a memory, the place it was found, the weather on the day I collected it, the people I was with, etc. Each discarded scrap that I saved holds the hidden story of it’s past life now tied together with my new relationship to it.

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Look around. Do you see the inspiration? It’s right there, in front of you.

Sometimes I lose sight of this, and dive into the struggle of searching for the perfect spark, overlooking all the other sparks that are going off around me. This can describe my state for the last couple of weeks, searching, searching for the next perfect inspiration.

I got to journaling yesterday, and found that I was indeed excited about a spark I’d previously had, but put on the back burner because I was searching for the better one. Silly me. As I wrote about my desire for clear, flowing inspiration, I found myself tapping into this previous inspiration. As I continued to write about it, I realized that I was excited and motivated to take it beyond a thought and feeling, and into reality. (more…)