Marinating

I was talking to an artist buddy yesterday about artwork needing to marinate in the studio for a while. It provides an opportunity to consider and reconsider what you’re doing and why?

But the real seasoning is in what you are consuming as a curious and conscious entity. What are you reading? Who are you looking at? What influences are guiding your practice?

With that, I want to share with you a shelf in my studio and it’s current state.

A Lucha mask given to me by fellow photographer, Thomas McGovern, and ephemera from a Ryan Brown performance in NYC circa 2007ish.

Hard drives and journals. The nervous system.

Photo books, some of my Risograph prints, and zines.

It’s too dense to list them all now, and there are some zines squished between others, but everything on this shelf is the most interesting stuff to me.

More rad zines, a box of business cards, and a box of 4x5 negs that I’ve abused in some form or fashion and plan on making into little art books.

A lot of Zoom meetings…

For those about to rock!

So yeah. Sometimes when I’m sewing or looking at pictures, I’ll veer off and end up picking up one of these. I may have planned to sew but will end up reading. I think it’s important for artists to dawdle from time to time because that’s when you’re creating your special blend of seasonings.