I feel completed about the former work where a meme-like wrapper is put around a Sculptural Character, and which permits an allegory to be told. Then, there is documentation to social media, generally a post or brief video, much as you see here on the blog. But I won’t go further into the style of Reels and TikTok. I’m not converting to that format. I can’t make art to conform to a media style, any more than doing it to appeal to galleries, or get into shows. I like reaching the audience that I can but won’t chase the audience. It does seem that all those Likes, Insights and Followers encourage you to do that. 

IG/YouTube/Facebook has changed a lot for me since the pandemic. I’m less interested in there and the creators there. The formulas are set, and categories are simply routine. The whole scene is just tired. Besides, I think that AI will soon inundate the social medias with content, further driving the scarcity of original content like artist’s work. That’s not an area in which want to place my work or seek my audience. I think that’s gone as far as it can for me. I should just spend time here on the blog.

I’m reminded that one need not engage with Contemporary Art and Media at all… A rich and diverse living experience is available at all times from the legacy of all global culture for all times in history. Enjoy what you like and be totally unaware of the rest.

The question of “what is creativity?” arises as we believe we’re now excessively immersed in media throughout our lives in this world. Many can believe that creativity and originality is impossible now, and all efforts to conceptualize and realize ideas, thoughts, and feelings, are repetitive of earlier productions, and we’re only left to reexamine, resort, and morph the genres that already exist. I had worked artistically for years in the model of conceptualize-build-and present, but I no longer believe that ideas matter, or that the realized outcomes of ideas, that is, as artworks, matter either. For me now, what matters is that particular moment when one is mediating between the idea, the imagination, and the created thing, the realization, between the imaginary and the real. That gap, that bridge between the two worlds, the inner and outer universes we exist in, that middle-of-the-ocean non-place, far from either shore… this is the place I’m most interested in spending my time at, in my studio. Of course, as a person for whom relevance is no longer important or even possible, I am free to do this. For a sculptor, it is the moment  between design and execution, for the dancer, perhaps it is the moment after hearing the music and before making a step. For the poet it is the gap from the voice in the head to the words on the page. This duality forms every creative act, and like every duality, can be resolved by adding a third element, the instant of the creative moment itself.