I brought a pack of bottled water in to work earlier this month. And as it was sitting on my desk, waiting for me to put it in the refrigerator, I noticed the back of the packaging.

It shows a photograph of an dormant volcano with a simple, hand drawn illustration laid over top of it.

The illustration depicts all the various sediment layers that rainwater filters down through within the volcano before the water's ready for this company to bottle it up and ship it off to jewelry magazine editor's all over the world.

As soon as I saw that illustration superimposed over that photo, it looked to me like the volcano was wearing a necklace.

All I wanted to do was go pick up a hammer and start texturing some metal. I could picture arranging and soldering the textured pieces together into layers, assembled it into this giant  volcanic-inspired mixed metal collar.

Since I didn't have time to get to the studio right then, I just kind of let my mind play for a bit, and sketched a few ideas.

It doesn't matter if I ever end up making my volcanic sedimentary rock choker. The point is that I felt my inpiration and honored it, without judging it as silly since it came from "just some commercial packaging."

I wonder what will inspire me next.

Has anything unusual, or off-the-wall, or even mundane, inspired you?

If so, I'd like to hear about it in the comments section below.

~Addie~