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Art for Art’s Sake A LOCAL ARTIST CREATES JUST FOR HERSELF, AT LEAST FOR NOW By Heather Shoning WHEN JULIE JUNDT was a child, she spent hours and hours drawing but never felt she had talents like her mother and brother. Ultimately, she gave up creativity for hustle when she became a real-estate agent at age 21. Jundt spent nearly 20 years hot-footing through her career. It wasn’t until she quit working that she found her true creativity. About two years ago, while taking her son to his piano lesson, she spotted a used guitar for sale with a Fender strap and thought, “I want that strap on my purse.” She bought the guitar and quickly learned that putting that strap on her purse wasn’t quite as simple as she imagined. But it was the impetus to a path of learning, creating and, ultimately, figuring out how to create things she could see in her head but had no clue how to make manifest. “With the strap, it was like, ‘OK, well, now how do I attach this?’” she says. “So, I set out to figure out the right fasteners.” That turned into learning how to rivet, then grommet. 70
august 2021 // AvidLifestyle
