I've not done any regular writing like this in quite a while so you may have to forgive me. The last time I had anything close to a blog was a Geocities website back around 2004 I would use to put some of my crude Paint photo editing up with. The earliest of this work I had done without a computer altogether, cutting out some of my teachers heads and gluing them to other bodies, then using a black and white copier to make the final image. I did not have a computer in my home until I was 13, and currently at the age of 30 have still never owned a cell phone (though I may remedy this soon). Hipsters when they heard this about me often reply "Yea! Good for you!". They misunderstand. I don't dislike technology, and don't underestimate its power in the creative world. I myself use it a great deal in creating art and in my animation work. I am still active on social media, love the ease of communication, and so on. I use a computer for these things. Having not had a portable device like that through this stage in our history I simply have not developed the bond most folks have with one. It isn't that I dislike them, they just are not that sort of fit for me. I can't imagine ever being glued all day to a device like that. There are parts of my day now when I am, but I get to a point where I just can't deal with it anymore. That has really been in many ways what has lead to my next stream of creative projects... A need to disconnect. I am sure I will post more on this later.
All that said, this is the first time I have ever made a concerted effort to do something structurally active and creative that involves my work. The purpose of this for me is to try to explain ideas I get and projects I do. More than that, it is a way for me to have the conversations (even if it is with dead air, or myself) in detail about the topics that inspire my work. It doesn't even make sense to me as a whole what I do or why I do it. My art, activism, professional, personal, etc. they all seem totally separate things to me and in many ways it makes my life feel very fragmented. It is just the way I order (or disorder) things. I, as many creative types do, have a compulsion to share ideas and I suppose this is just an organized way of doing that. Things will certainly be out of order, or topics addressed unrelated to one another. That's to be expected. I am hoping to gain a few readers, or at the very least, have something documented for posterity for those who may one day see relevance in what I am doing. Maybe it is good, maybe it is narcissism, but regardless this will be on the terms I see fit. At the very least it should be interesting.
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