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I've recently been thinking about how long, how much, and why, I've been doing this.

The answers to some of these questions come easy. I do it because I love doing it. I've been doing it for 25 years now.

Through the years my output has varied. The above image is from 2012. I made a lot of work between graduating from SMFA (2006) and having kids. Once I had kids (two in fifteen months) it slowed down.

A lot. I was a stay at home dad teaching night photo classes.

It has recently (last 3 years) picked up.

A lot.

I was digging through my hard drives and negatives recently and realized I made a lot of work, over a lot of years, that I really love. Technology has improved what I can do with that old work. I like reworking/ revisiting.

I'm also trying to navigate how I can do a better job of getting my work out into the world. I've always been a bad salesman. I cringe at the idea. I love making the stuff. I love talking to people about photography, art, ideas. I'm bad at business. Most of the people I love to hang out with are bad at business. There is something to the persona of "salesperson" that I don't get along with. I don't know where this is going.

I'm enjoy making stuff. I have SOOOO much of it (photos, negatives, paintings, sculptures, experiments).

I'm slowly working to organize all of the stuff I have into coherent volumes. I need to figure out how to approach, curate and display a portion of my work on a gallery wall.

Is this diaristic?

Anyways.....

Look around. If you like what you see, I appreciate it. If you let me know, I appreciate it even more. If you buy something, I'll love you forever. If you want to be friends, let's.