My brain is a compost heap

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Written By Elinor Trier

Inspiration is rarely a single lightbulb moment. It's more like a compost heap - a giant steaming pile of disparate things slowly breaking down until they become something new.

This is a tour of my particular inspiration compost heap. Basquiat's heads. Firelei Baez painting over colonial maps. The Rokeby Venus being slashed and stitched back together. Life drawing. A book of mechanical diagrams bought specifically to deface. And an open loop from my last collection that acts as a bridge between it all.

My creative well is oh-so-very slowly filling back up, drop by drop.

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