Tag: making
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A physical artefact of an ephemeral time and place on the web. Joshua Davis’ Praystation Harddrive released roughly 25 years ago. It was a time when the web meant exploration, discovery, and community to me. It was rough around the edges but if you looked you could see those edges and follow them. The web now mostly feels like an infinitely sprawling grid of big box stores with the occasional service road and even more rare raw alleyway. The alleys are where the edges still exist, they are just much harder to access. Let’s still make things. Digital and physical…
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Make bread. It’s just flour, salt, water, and a bit of your time. Deeply rewarding.
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I’ve been thinking about inconsistent art practice recently. Consistency is something that receives a lot of attention in art making and it has obvious merits. The call to show up regularly for creative expression is valid. Prioritizing time for making in whatever form it might take is healthy. There’s also a certain pressure for artists to be consistent in what we make. A pressure to develop a recognizable style and to reliably produce new work. Even the well meaning consecutive 30, 100, 365 day art challenges place a value in repetition. These can be powerful in jumpstarting a creative pattern…