the home project + more!
Hii! It’s been a while! A lot has happened, as well as a lot of art! I will probably make a more detailed update post when I finish the big project that I am working on. But for now, this is a little project if finished right before the new year. I never really came up with a good title, because titles are hard, it has been one of the most meaningful and special small projects I have made in a while! You may have seen it on the instagram already but I want to put it here now that I am feeling a bit more able to put my time into arting! Or at least a bit more time to publish my arting. So here it is:
I don’t know how I feel about artist statements, is it the artists responsibility to make a statement of intention or meaning? Or even a description? Or is it just the audience’s responsibility to interpret, make meaning, and see it for themselves? I have no idea… But I do think that I want to add a few words about what it means to me.
This project was a few months in the making and was constantly on my mind the whole time. I made all of these images in the fall of last year (2023) back home in silverton. I had just gotten back from a summer in Idaho raft guiding and a Grand Canyon trip in September to cap it all off. It was a relatively short stay back home, only a week and a half, but was very insightful. I realized that I hadn’t felt at home in my old house, and in the place I still called my home for a while. Not only that, but I hadn’t felt at home in myself for even longer. It has been, and very much still is, my journey of finding this home inside for the past almost two years, and even beyond. I have been on that rollercoaster without a break since. It has completely broken me (to be explored later), but in the process has revealed the home inside and the security, joy, and contentment that comes from finding this. I have a ways to go, but now finally have more direction. Yay!
On that note I also want to include a quick afternoon project I whipped up on Christmas day. It tracks very well with this vein of thought and is another recent favorite, and can be found pinned to the top of my instagram.
I am excited to share more hopefully soon (you never know…) and put out a project I am really proud of. Lastly, I am also excited to see where my art takes me and how my style changes and morphs through the next bit. It has already changed a lot :)
Oh! Lastly, lastly, I may make a more convential photo page for the popular outdoors photos that I have made and that are gaining popularity in a few places as prints… See ya!
