As long as I can remember I’ve been involved in making art using the video medium. To be completely honest about it, looking back I’ve been extremely fractured and aloof about how and where my work is presented.
We’ve spent the last year in a self imposed self isolation to keep us and other’s save during the tumultuous year which was twenty twenty. Honestly I had thoughts and hopes that it would change much of our constant day to day life. I thought we’d find more time to take on small projects. Find energy to get in shape, build, make, bake and all of the other things that pretty much everyone thought that they would be able to take care of.
It’s now a year later and we’ve by no means put the pandemic behind us. Yet all I really want to do now is escape. We were incredibly lucky over the past year. We had a finished backyard with plenty of space for all of us to retreat to. We’ve had work that’s been pretty steady throughout the wild year.
The kids never missed a beat with regards to their education and school.
I’ve been trying to motivate myself to make things. Take on projects do more. Do more. Just because it’ll take my brain out of what currently r3netly feels like “pause”.
As we’ve pushed into the new year and have passed my birthday which means that we’re already 1/4 of the way into 2021. I’ve realized what is likely necessary in both my career and creative lives.
I must consolidate and combine. I need to become more streamlined in both my digital existence as well as my physical life.
Less stuff, less clutter, less mess and somehow remind myself to continue this path.
I want my work to move into a much more practical space. I want my art to move into a practical space. When I’m making films or photographs I want them to be treated as a special entity of my being and not lost amongst and algorithm or searching for validation from those who have no way to provide it.
More conversations, more connections, and more collaboration is what I’ll be seeking. Get in touch. Let’s do this together.
