<p>The founder of Beeyarnd, the custom fibre-art company, says: "What&rsquo;s the point of having something beautiful if it doesn&rsquo;t mean something to you?"</p>

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        <p><span>&ldquo;I was a food stylist before I started Beeyarnd, my custom fibre- art company. We would shoot for hours, back-to-back, and it would be really mentally and physically draining. They&rsquo;re exciting projects, but it takes a toll on you. Creative fatigue is very real. The feeling where you sort of blank out and feel like you can&rsquo;t create anything, that nothing excites you anymore. </span></p>
        <p><span>Then I realised that we tend to marry our identities to our job &mdash; when you talk to people, a lot of it revolves around work: What do you do? What brands do you work with? How much do you earn? It&rsquo;s as if there&rsquo;s nothing more to us than that. It&rsquo;s probably </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px;">cultural &mdash; we don&rsquo;t really talk to one another so much about our interests, our values. And I just wanted to break out of that.</span></p>
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<p><span>I never really felt the functionality of my hands, or even my body, before I took up latch hooking &mdash; you usually feel that your body is detached from your mind. And when I was younger, maybe there was this desire to push my body, which lead to a kind of disconnect. But when I picked up latch hooking, I realised how important they were, how they were a resource to create wonderful things. A lot of my work is about feeling and intuition &mdash; it is very intimate and personal to the clients who commission them. Because what&rsquo;s the point of having something beautiful if it doesn&rsquo;t mean something to you?&rdquo;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Photography</strong><span>&nbsp;</span>Lavender Chang</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Styling</strong><span>&nbsp;</span>Gregory Woo</p>

Artist Alicia Kirwan talks about creative fatigue: "You feel like nothing excites you"

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