Before I post for week two of class, I need to think about why I create. Often materials rather than concepts drive me. I see yarn, it suggests a garment. I see bridge undersides, they suggest fabric that I might create. I am given a yarn I would never ordinarily use and I try to come up with a use for that yarn that makes it more than  the plastic that it is, that transcends the ordinary I guess would be a more artsy way to express it. I have an urge to create something when I see rusty pieces of metal. I don't always know what that will be when I collect them but they tease me with their suggestiveness. Why do I do this? I like producing things. I like baking bread too. I like having something I can look at at the end of the day and say I made this. I am not driven to express great truths or to confront controversy with the things that I create. Do I need to have a concept beyond creating something pleasing to my eye? Whether what I create is art or not remains to be seen and I hope, by the end of this class, to be able to answer that.