To the nice person who wrote this, thank you :")
My Dad is really really exceptionally skilled at handicraft, and I think I must've inherited
some handicraft skills from him - I kind of follow my dad in way whereby we both draw and
have this penchant to fix and build things ourselves despite having a store sell it at half the
price and perhaps a quarter of the effort.
In my opinion nothing beats making something by hand. Be it sewing or craft, I guess there's
a whole lot more effort and sweat that goes into the final product that makes it much more
an item per se, as compared to pushing it through a machine and completing it in minutes.
On another topic, I have to really quit freelancing soon and start to make a name for myself
in the art industry perhaps. While freelance has its benefits, I think it works more as a start
out platform for you to hone your skills with. Stay too long and you will see the same skills
that has been honed (for the commercialized industry) start to deplete and then you end up
way worse than before you started.
Clients decide the results most of the time, which results in your creativity stifled. In time, you
start to design more commercially, and while that's nothing too negative, I guessed I sat and
watched my own creativity and thinking & designing freedom start to elude me all too quickly.
Of course freelance pays alright if you get the right contacts, but then again its really a hole
which you get sucked in all too quickly if you aren't too prepared for it - like myself. Firstly
perhaps I did not spilt up my time and life properly, and I found myself having too many
issues to juggle - relationships, retail work, school and freelance.
I've lost track of so much time that my unread magazines back issues date back to perhaps even
up till 6 months or so worth of them. My Monocle stack is an impressive 6 issue backdate, and
I haven't even touched others like i-D, Surface, Hypebeast, etc.
I think its high time I started taking steps to fulfilling my dream and self visioned purpose - I'm
turning 20 end November, and while some might say the years are still fairly young, I've somehow
been dragged along on this train to nowhere for long enough.
Hopefully i'll be able to go on a design hiatus for awhile and rediscover everything.
Till then,
xx
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