Featherstone Chronicles

  Describe a time you took a risk. How did you overcome feelings of inadequacy, fear, and/or vulnerability? What did you learn from the experience? This is very long and rambly lol but I think it will be healing to write about it.                Last Fall, I took a risk of quitting and leaving my toxic corporate job of 5+ years in order to attend school full-time. I had been trying to garner up the courage for years to leave. Being in my early 30's, I had major trepidation - as this was risky due to my need to have health insurance coverage at this age. Ultimately though, the nature of my job involved handling cases/complaints and was taking a huge toll on my mental health.    I finally reached a breaking point after my leadership wouldn't approve PTO for a break I desperately needed. I had wanted to see my family in Atlanta during the holidays  (even after explaining that I had not seen them for 2 YEARS due to Covid), in addition to my partner and I wanting to take some time o

  In what ways do you see yourself as creative? What roadblocks do you sometimes find yourself coming up against as you nurture your creativity?     I see myself as creative when it comes to doing art and paying attention to details. I have drawn since I was little, did painting in highschool, and then took a hiatus for a while to pursue another career. I also put down my hobby for this period because I didn't feel talented enough at one point in my life - which is one of my bigger regrets. Being around other artists made me my own worst critic when I was younger and more insecure.  Now however, I have re-visted and come back to art after accomplishing my other career - where it took its own course.  I still will say that other artists and designers give me a run for my money! Haha. The feeling is different now though, as it now inspires me. It is easy to compare myself to others but it does push me to improve my design, and getting feedback and constructive criticism is one of the

  What drew you to take a class on creativity? I'll have to be upfront and honest here - it was a requirement of the school. That being said, I appreciate that it is a class I need to take. I often run into creative blocks and need more tools lately to open up my mind to creative ideas. I think overall, it was a credit that is needed because I decided to go into design - specifically digital design. If I boil it down to the sole reason, creating makes me feel alive and it brings out the best in me. I feel like art is one of the few positive and beautiful things that humans contribute to this world and if it is left behind when we are all gone - I can't say that we were a total loss.   What do you do to inspire your creativity? I like to do various things. My classmate and I were recently talking about how we don't like it when we are given too broad of an assignment to come up with anything. We need it narrowed down to a theme or subject, so we came up with a word or subjec

  Visit the website  https://theindexproject.org/  (Links to an external site.)  Choose one INDEX award winner or nominee and review their profile and design. Write a comment about the design or invention.          I chose Flash Forest for my index winner. I like the idea of replanting forests and increasing the biodiversity of trees. I will argue a little known fact however. Oceanic plankton is responsible for more than 70% of our oxygen. Plus, oceans produce more oxygen than all trees combined. It would be nice to have a focus on helping preserve this in some ways. There is a chain effect in whales being important for the oceans ecosystem in order to produce food for the plankton and vice versa to feed the whales -. That being said, I still don't want to discount this idea - just want to point out that trees are considered a more minimal percentage when it comes to the amount of forest it take to remove carbon dioxide that will amount that fighting climate change. I think this co

1. When you hear the word "creativity," what comes to mind? How would you describe creativity? When I hear the word creativity, I think of new thoughts and ideas that are enriching. To me and how I would describe creativity, would be opening up doors to ideas that can be outside of the box or expand beyond different realms in your mind. I find my creativity through design and art but think it can be channeled or described in different ways among other individuals.