Talking to the Artist = Talking with People from different planet

Yesterday, I had a chance to go to Artspace where artists can work publicly and interact with audience during their creative process. I listened to one of the artists there. She is a designer plus graphic design plus graduate student in industrial design. The main focus of the talk is on her creation project. We discussed about what is her inspiration, how can she create her work, what does it mean and why her work come out that way. It was a good time to learn from the artist since I haven't had many chances to talk to this kind of people.

I learn that she read, write, listen A LOT and everything around her can become her inspiration to create her work. ( It seems like she is super hyperactive when she talk) My background is in engineering and science so I'm not really understand how the art work because I may view things around me too realistically, maybe. I haven't see thing like she did. I don't really understand how can she do that. How can she think about her work all the time. On the other hand, I can see that she have tons of passion and inspiration to do her job which I think it's the best thing in the world to have. If you know that you really want to do something, you will not want to stop doing it. You want it to be the greatest thing. The most important thing is that you are happy doing it all the time.

I haven't had that passion for such a long long time. I have my school works and I finish them before time but that doesn't give me any feeling of happy or proudness. I don't know. Maybe, I lost my passion on school. I know that when I first got a work ( a report, presentation, paper). I'll try to get it don't as soon as possible since I don't want it to be on my way for so long. After I finished those taskes, I get a sense of success. At least, I get it done but I haven't had passion or joy in doing it like the artists do their work. I curious how can I find that feeling.

So I think Artists who know what they are doing are people for different planet who are happy. I hope that one day, I will be able to understand them and find my own passion to do the work.