A few weeks ago I realised I hadn’t posted anything here since August 2024. At the beginning of summer, I started freelancing full time, and since then I’ve really struggled to find a balance between client work, personal work, and other creative outlets. None of the client work I was doing was ready to post — a couple of the projects I spent most of 2024 working on were pushed back — and I wasn’t finding time to make anything entirely by myself that I thought would be interesting, or worth trying to “curate” as part of my art. All the while, the pressure was always there to post several times a week, or make reels — neither of which fit the kind of work I wanted to do. So I didn’t post anything.
Then in October,
@saefern and I traveled to Japan for a few weeks, where we unwound, saw so many new things, took photos (like these ones from Tokyo), and made new friends. Coming back was a mixture of feeling inspired to make new things while constantly playing catch-up, but the paralysis of making the perfect next post was still there.
I’m still not entirely sure how I want to navigate being visible with my work, whether it’s a mixture of design, art and photography, short-form or long-form, temporary or permanent. But the more I think about it, the more I lose interest in curating a perfect feed, or trying too hard to please an algorithm that will change at a moment’s notice anyway. The more artists and creators I see abandoning the need to fit into a mould, or breaking free of social media by starting newsletters and websites, the more I find myself feeling comfort in being slow, calm, and content with imperfection.
#gold200 #madewithkodak
