Gathering Threads: How Noticing Fuels Creativity

Creativity doesn’t just happen at the worktable. It begins in the way you notice the world.

The color of a stranger’s scarf. The sound of rain on a metal roof. A sentence in a book you didn’t expect to underline.

These small, fleeting moments are threads - and when you gather enough of them, they become something you can weave.

Keep a place for these gatherings. A box for scraps of paper. A notebook where nothing has to be organized. A photo roll where you let light and color collect without asking why.

The act of noticing is the act of preparing.

By the time you sit down to make, your hands already know the feel of the work because you’ve been gathering it all along.

You are always making, even before you begin.