The
world is full of interesting and creative people and ideas that have
inspired us. Our story begins as pimply junior highers that had sleep
overs, trying on makeup and sneaking into R rated movies. We remained
close friends through college, traveled across Europe together, and
completed a marathon together. Although we now live over three hundred
miles apart, we try to find the time to meet up for an art day, a
thrift-store scrounging day, or an adventurous trip to somewhere we have
never been. We have similar interests, but different perspectives, and this dual input adds depth to our ventures. We
are frequently inspired by something we see, and then we find a way to
do adapt it to our own style, finding a way to weave it into our world.
And many of these inspirations have come to us in moments and places when we least expected it: when
we got on a street we hadn’t meant to in Rome, walked across the
entire city of London because we misjudged the scale of our map, or
accidentally ran 24 miles instead of 22 because we measured the distance
wrong. It is in those moments when we have accidentally
gotten somewhere we didn’t know existed, or pushed ourselves beyond what
we had intended, that we have learned the most. The art of getting lost.
So,
we have always tended toward the creative, intrepid side of life, and
the main constraint on fully pursuing these inclinations has always been
time. The Sea Lily Project is a means for
us to make more time for doing the things we love to do, and to
mindfully reflect on some of those experiences. We would love to hear from others who enjoy the creative side of things, and who also find themselves happily lost, on occasion.
