To sleep or not to sleep
Inspiration, turns out, is a very fickle thing. Sometimes my head bursts with ideas. So bad, I can’t sleep. During those periods, the world is one big playground where everything I see could end up in a creative project, big or small. What I don’t like is that I just can’t sleep during such periods. Ideas tumble around in my head and my brain just won’t get quiet. If I where a die-hard artist, I would be one of those people who’d sleep 3 hours per night. Problem is that I still need my good night’s rest, so I think I would turn into some kind of Bombie the Zombie, which, I reckon, couldn’t be a good thing.But..after these wild brain periods, everything shuts down all of a sudden. I sleep like a baby at the moment. But inspiration or new ideas to work on…are hibernating somewhere in a corner of my head…and won’t come out ’till it’s Spring.
Even though I’m very thankful that I’m sleeping again, this fickleness can be frustrating at times. I just can’t be that creative person I want to be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (I did brought my imitation of a hibernating creature to perfection, that should be a good thing! ;-))
Yesterday, I attempted to get my inspiration back by visiting the Sieboldhouse in Leiden. The museum is all about the external relation between The Netherlands and Japan, 150 years ago. The museum’s collection of old Japanse objects was just beautiful, as was the Katsushika Hokusai exhibition. And because it’s a small museum, it wasn’t very crowded, for which my sleepy head was very thankful (I can’t stand much fuss either during my hibernating stage).
But the head..stayed quiet. So I think I’ll just let my inspiration issue rest until the sprung of Spring.
Of course I can still enjoy beautiful things: top picture: some very old Japanese prints, bottom: a beautiful butterfly hairpin made with tiny shelves and silk flowers.
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