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11/15/ 25

I keep adding new work to the spaces that it feels like they fit.

I created the Weltshmerz gallery with the idea of turning it into a book. There is a certain theme and pacing to the work that makes sense. I think about my work in themes, books, and bodies a lot but I have a habit of never considering them finished. I was listening to another photographer speak about thier work recently and they expressed the same sentiment. At some point you have to end it, cut the cord, and let it be what it can. I need to get better at realizing where that point is. 

I wonder about being so unsure on these posts. The internet doesn't reward uncertainty. The artworld doesn't either.

"I know who I am!

What I make!

I know what you should think about it!"

This feels like the online currency. People declaring uncertain ideas with bravado is our contemporary media culture. I don't care for it. (he says with certainty...)

6/15/25

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.