The recurring theme of defining my intentions coming up a lot for me recently, and it’s led me to really examining my goals for this website and blog. I need to beagle to define why I’m doing this if I want to be able to continue in a meaningful way, and use it towards my larger goals.

Creating this website and blog has several purposes for me. First and foremost is my intention to create a space to share. I have a bad habit of keeping my ideas and thoughts to myself, so this is an attempt and opportunity to put my work and thinking out there. It’s also a scratch space to develop my thinking, record my research, and document my progress and projects. 

Writing is an important way for me to process and explore my thoughts on other people’s art, projects, and ideas. As part of that, it also allows me to keep a list of things that inspire me, with notes on why, and most importantly links back to those projects, ideas, and resources. As I continue writing and updating, I am continually building a resource library that I can search through. 

I mentioned before the idea of ‘putting my work out there.’ This goes not only for my written ideas, but also for what I actually create. Another important goal of this website is to not only share my portfolio of works, but to share the artist statements and details behind them. Particularly because I don’t currently have the ability to create at the scale I’d like to, this blog creates opportunity to share research, smaller scale models, and process. Showing the work that I’m doing behind the scenes until I can create at the scale I want to is important to me. The progress is in the process. 

All of these purposes and goals lead to what this website is and how I plan to use it. I hope to eventually grow it into a resource, journal, and process that leads to me not only creating more of what I want to create, but sharing it in a meaningful way, completing the process of following through from idea to reality.