Musings

I have been pondering the direction I want to move towards in terms of design. And in doing so, I of course looked at the pieces I've made thus far and designs I'm drawn to in general. In my musings, I have discovered something interesting and somewhat unexpected.

In terms of design - clothes, furniture, architecture, jewelery I buy, I lean towards simple, clean-lined, unfussy designs. For example, modern/modernist furniture designs (Eames, Noguchi, Macintosh), architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Deco architecture and the like. And yet, when I create, I lean towards the *pretty*. Not necessarily the simple clean lines, of the above mentioned. They could even be complicated and complex, but *pretty*.

I've never thought that my aesthetic sensibilities leaned towards the *pretty*. I guess it's because I equate *pretty* to *feminine*, and I am so not *feminine*. Anyone who remotely knows me can atest to the fact that I'm not a girly girl at all, especially the Husband. Which is why I'm rather surprised by this realisation.