One of my favorite images I've taken.

Looking at old work is difficult to do, especially when you haven't been up to nearly as much. It's the same story that's been told a million times. Prolific art student graduates, works part time, hardly produces work thereafter. I have the ability to shoot digitally and upload any moment, but then it seems like than I'm just shooting for blog purposes. I miss shooting frequently with my large format. Film is so goddamn expensive for that though, and part time pays only so much.

I'm ordering some film right now, since I got in my tax returns. Dunno what to shoot, but that doesn't matter as all of that usually reveals itself.

Takeshi "Terry" Terauchi and the Bunnies
"Seicho Takeuchi-Bushi

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Some of the best surf music I've come across. Not that I'm a huge expert by any means, but this should be a staple of any self-professed music lover's library. Download and be happy.

So this is now my third attempt at maintaining a blog. I'm making a conscious effort to have this one be a little bit less "photo-centric" compared to my previous, but no guarantees. Although it's also a little motivational tool to get some momentum again in my work.

I have missed being immersed in the Art World, but largely I find myself more relieved to be on my own terms than anything else. The framework of the art world now seems completely unappealing to me. I'm not saying I'm above it. My ego isn't that inflated (yet). But the whole idea of a gallery system and collectors seems like something I'd rather not do, or at least not produce work with the sole intent of entering it into that system. Only so many people actually go to galleries, and an even more exclusive few buy that art from those galleries. If a collector came up to me and asked to buy some prints I'd still probably take the check. I'm a hypocrite like that. So I guess what I admitting is I really have no idea what I want to do with my work after I produce it. Maybe I just need to find the right gallery for me, or just produce work and let it just kind of work itself out.

All in all, I'm just generally tired of discussing work in relation to the Art World, and then going to a discussion with artists about the Art world and so on. It all comes across like one gigantic circle-jerk. From a distant view, the Art World seems like an incredibly insulated place with it's participants carrying greatly exaggerated views of themselves and their role in the "Big Picture". Maybe I just got burnt out on it after having it hammered in my skull for 4 years though. Probably the latter.

So my aim with this blog is just to catalog whatever the fuck I feel like publishing in that 10 minute span it takes me to post it. No overarching concept or theory. Just stuff.

Chinese New Year