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Something I’ve been meaning to do all year is to update my artist website. I don’t use it very much, but I set it up a few years after I started–just before the pandemic?–so that–among other things–I’d have a home base in case I ever made it to the next level in terms of exposure or marketing. It’s still the main “official” exposure for my artwork on the Internet, and it’s good to know it’ll still be there (it’s a WordPress site much like this one) if Instagram’s further enshittened (a process I hoped would be reversed at some point but probably a little late now as “they” seem intent on turning it into TikTok–which, I mean, already exists, but eh).
Along with samples of my painting, illustration, and sketches, I had a brief bio and explanation of my artwork that never quite sat right with me given how much I blather on in certain quarters, hint hint, about what I do and why I do it. So it’s been nagging at me to write a more comprehensive statement, especially given how much more experience I now have of other people’s work and practice. On the other hand, so many of these feel like they have to fulfill a certain quota of academy-dictated jargon or buzzwords (at one point it felt like I saw “liminality” or “liminal spaces” in every other example) and… that ain’t me. So I’ve been wrestling with that particular process and, though I’d hoped to update the website by the equinox, I’m steeling myself for the possibility that it might take a little longer (it’s not the biggest deal in the world, but I like sticking to the schedule especially given everything else I want to do).
The header this week is a sketch I did (the first, likely of many) along the Argo Cascades–a partially manmade branch of the Huron River in Ann Arbor and a popular spot only a few blocks away from the new place. I’ve been doing a lot of sketching and maybe more unusually a lot of techie noodling–learning a few new tricks on Procreate and playing with my iPad camera. Transferred said sketch via email from my the iPad to the laptop–a process that still stuns pre-digital native me when I think about it even as I recognize it as a little cumbersome and wish there was a more streamlined method.
How’s your work going?