Finding Inspiration in All the Right Places

Yesterday I decided to venture out for a walk with my camera.  I had no particular destination in mind.  My only goal was to snap some photos to take back home for design inspiration on my next art quilts...or as I heard it said, " to feed my muse".

Having finished my 16-month-long project of a Torah Ark curtain for our synagogue just before leaving for Israel, I knew I would be returning home from my trip with the need for some new ideas.

What I found was that inspiration was EVERYWHERE!!!

The architecture in Jerusalem is amazing.  There are wonderful designs in fences, doors,
window gates, street posts ...
 

 recycle bins...and even 

 

sewer covers!

(A elderly passerby laughed at me when she saw me taking this  photo of a sewer cover (above)...I replied "I'm an artist".   Afterwards, I was not sure why I even bothered to justify what I was doing....some things artists do are just not understandable.)

  
Life in Israel is an infinite display of visual beauty, both physically and spiritually.


As with most of my art quilts, I really have no idea when I begin one, where the work will lead,  how it will end up, or what it is meant to become.  I just begin doing something like sewing strips of fabric together.

I really have NO idea if, where, or when the above images will end up in my artwork....    I just look for line, pattern, color combination, anything that strikes me when I see it.

Today as well as every day, I was very grateful to be able to say, "I am an artist".