I’ve spent much of the last little while updating the projects page of this website. I still have to update the pages for eyeSnowScape, Glass Clouds, and the books Magyarázni, Poets and Killers, and Bloom and Martyr, but I’ve added a number of new project pages and updated a few others. I’ve been holding off posting about it because I thought “ah I’ll finish it all at once and reveal it and there will be fanfare and fireworks and I will be hailed as the voice of my generation!” But it’s taking forever and if I don’t write something on this blog soon it’ll peter out so… hi! that’s what I’ve been doing.
Thing that struck me as I did this was how many ways I’ve used art to deal with grief. I plan on writing a post soon that draws all that together.
One project that doesn’t deal with grief, or at least not the grief of losing my dad, is the Lost Photos project. I’m looking forward to working more on that one in the coming months and figuring out what the body of work will look like as a whole, and what the project means to me as it goes from idea to reality. I still think I need another name for it though, something more unique and descriptive. I think (and hope) that as I spend more time with the project and think about my intentions for it and what it means to me a title will come to me.
Vintage photos from Nanton, Alberta.