Being on the road lesson #1: don’t expect yourself to get as much done as you planned. I had this grand plan to write about each of the places I had visited right away, publishing a post a week, doing them all justice… alas. You’ll just have to settle for my retrospective. We’ll start where […]
It’s been quite a long time in the making, but I’ve finally finally finished putting together my art zine: Loving Ghosts. The theme is on support networks – people in my life who have been invisible loving supports to me as I walk my journey. I wanted to do a lot of mixed media work, […]
I’ve been writing this post in my head for over a week now: It’s about moving worth away from material successes – finishing a manuscript, getting the job you wanted – and finding that worth lies more in the intangible. In things such as how your commitment to the work, your gratitude for daily life, […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
As I hinted about on my blog a while ago, I will not be entirely ineffective this winter break. Rather, I will be “doing it big,” as we once would say at my high school – I am going to embark on a multi-level creative project that involves joining the very disparate elements of my […]
I’ve been thinking about the distinction between working art and art that is just for its own sake. I make art of both types, and often the line between the two is faded and blurred (pardon the pun). For instance, this drawn collage of my left hand (hand-lage!) was created for its own sake. I […]
This weekend, I had a brief time when felt like I was starting to lose it. Life was jumbled with work and work with life so much that I felt restless and in need of some quiet creative time. Hence, I returned to that little gem of creating every day, but in a very different […]
This summer, I set myself the goal of going multi-media with the blog, so I am excited to present my first vlog post! The subject is valuing your artistic work and bringing it together with your identities. I apologize that there is currently no transcript because I did not yet have time to create one. […]
After listening to this great presentation by Nick Campbell on the “creative gap,” I have decided to take one of his main points to heart and start creating a short project everyday. So, as of this Monday, I have been creating new work by the bucketloads (or, at least, once a day, everyday), and would […]