Recently I gave another interview which will be published in a German magazine soon – and there is always coming up that one question: Where do you get your inspiration?
And I think this is really an interesting issue – as all those artists, designers and handcrafters who are creating amazing stuff all around the world are having pretty different inspirations. I want to share mine with you and will make this a regularly issue in my blog.
Already as a kid I was blessed with a very vivid fantasy – pretty often my parents were even a bit concerned if it’s maybe too vivid and my fantasy could lead to problems. As they are very down-to-earth persons – I guess they just couldn’t understand what was going on with me. Well, nothing bad happened and after studying and working this and that – I finally ended up studying Fine Arts.
When a person makes creatures like I do – dolls which are just not little children made out of fabric. But fantasy creatures: Half a human child, half a little animal, or animals with clothes, monsters and so on – it’s seems that there is some kind of inner child pretty alive still. And if such a person even has two amazing kids: It’s pretty obvious that those children are a huge inspiration for the work.And that’s absolutely for sure: My children are the most important inspiration I have. Especially my son has an awsome fantasy, always telling stories, drawing and creating new creatures and animals (right now dinosaurs are his absolute favorite – so it’s just a matter of time until the first RevoluzZza dinosaur will enter RevoluzZza town :-) ).
But I also find inspiration in every day things, funny flowers or a special tree when I walk by the street, a strange pet I’m seeing somewhere, patterns on house walls or on the street… Almost everything can be inspirational.
And of course other artists are inspirational too.
Last week I got an amazing book from a very special US-american artist: Elsa Mora. I know her blog already a pretty long time – she is creating wonderful things with paper, painting amazing fantasy creatures, creating jewelries and much more – and recently she published a book about little creatures she made out of blossom leaves and other pieces from flowers: „Blossom Buddies“.
The book is as great as the idea sounds: And it’s the perfect book for the summer. Sit down, enjoy the sun, grab the Blossom Buddies book – and get inspirated. And maybe make your own little buddy too :-) It’s absolutely fascinating, relaxing, inspiring – and you’ll see flowers from a completely different point of view.
