1000 Words is a podcast that paints a picture about the creative process. This is a lens to focus on the unique perspective of a specific artist. Hopefully drawing insight into inspiration as we brush up on how imagination provides a groundwork for artistic exploration. We continue that journey today with Gage Craft! Gage Craft grew up in a semi-isolationist environment which allowed him to develop an imaginative fervor. Craft dove into himself and found his own sprawling plains of creation. This has made coping with the developed world into adulthood a struggle, one that he continues to explore in his work as well as attempting to encapsulate the lessons he gained and world he began conceptualizing as a child through his broken lens, observing the world, but never really feeling apart of it outside of the woods his family calls home. Now his plans for work involve creating a universe that can help guide the youth through esoteric and existential concepts, ones normally faced later in life after living without the need to stop and consider. Philosophical concepts normally deemed to high literature or otherwise for younger peoples to grasp leaving them unprepared when they have to deal with them. Because these are the things he became drawn towards, horrified by, and understanding of during his time spent feeling as if the “normal world” was too far to reach.