Creative practice

I was sitting in the Lang couryard with a student from the design school today, enthusing about the trees. She told me work she did for one of my classes had reminded her how much she likes words, as well as images; now she's not sure if she's a designer or an artist.  

She was curious about my work, too. What was my creative practice, she asked? I don't really have one, I said, being on the academic end of things, but she wasn't persuaded. I think everyone has a creative practice, she said: maybe mine is the way I look at trees. Maybe it is!