This week we heard from Eitti Wahl, the director of the movie “She the Creator”. We got our blog assignment from her. The assignment was to, in the coming week, to find a moment in the natural world that inspires us and why it speaks to us in that way. A few weeks after the original assignment I did just that. I was taking the light rail to my friends house in Columbia City when I experienced that moment. There was a man sitting in the seat across from me. The man was wearing large baggy black denim jeans matched with a pair of black Asics running shoes. He also wore an elongated t-shirt with a zip up hoodie that was much to small for him. Printed on the back of this black hoodie was a white corporate tech logo I didn’t recognize. It looked as if he had gotten it from a Christmas party from his employer. I thought it was beautiful. On a surface level I care a great deal about clothing and I love the black, but something spoke to me on a deeper level than that. My favorite type of designs are the ones that utilitarian in nature. Design that only exist to serve a purpose and not to look good or impress anyone. This is also my favorite type of clothing to observe on people. People who don’t even think about what they put on in the morning. For them clothing only serves one purpose for them and that is to cover themselves. Did this man on the train ever expect or believe that something he had put absolutely zero thought into have such an impact on someone? Probably not.
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