The Imbuing

Art, Personal

“I am increasingly interested in creativity, craft, handiwork, trauma, joy, and the creation of Things. Where time goes when you are in a state of awe creating something. It starts to sound sloppy and overwrought when I describe it, and most disappointingly like “Flow” but it’s more than that. I just haven’t figured out how to express it yet.”

Spoke & Hub blog: Place & Shape

My friend’s blog post connected with some ways I’m trying to think about art I like to create and some specific projects I’m imagining about.

Where does time go when you’re in that creation state? I think it goes into what you’re working on. I probably mean that metaphorically. You’re imbuing your work with a snapshot of time that includes your emotions, thoughts, intentions. That’s why you just have to actually do your thing whatever it is: write, paint, make weird web page collages. It’s a reflection of you at that time.

When I’m really connecting with a song for example, I like to think to myself something like: I bet they were feeling very similar overall to how I feel right now. Their experiences as expressed in the lyrics may or may not be similar to why I feel the way I do, but we can connect on the emotions those experiences caused. Sorry dude, I know how that feels.

Publishing a new art project

Art, Music

I’ve been slowly working on an art project over the last few months and I’ve finally gotten it far enough that I’m sharing it. It’ll be constantly under construction but that’ll be part of the fun.

It’s named “Fan sites” and it’s just some simple zine pages celebrating music with my own nerdy flavor of web art. This started when I was restoring my old Nirvana website and I remembered how much fun I use to have wasting time on weird websites!

Without further ado: Fan Sites Just For Fun!

a screenshot of my new fansites page
I only have 3 new bands for now, and they’re not even done. But I have a queue of new ones to work on and will just add them over time as I work on them.

I’ll probably post more on this in the future and explain some of my attempts to make these visual/interactive sites also fun to play with when using a screen reader. I’m still experimenting with some parts of that, but it’s ready to give a spin now!