We don't have to start from scratch. Creativity, and art as resistance, is always inspired by, driven by, or frankenstein-ed from stuff that already exists.
In this article at Group Hug, Elise offers four ways to hodgepodge your projects to life.
“We’re forever riffing off each other. We’re coming up with better ideas because we’re not starting from scratch. We’re making something genuinely interesting because we combined something we saw at the gas station with a song that moved us in a singing circle with a throwaway joke one of our friends made.”