I started this blog in large part because before COVID I suffered from a constant “I’m not doing enough art!” feeling, when in fact I was doing a lot of art. Things have definitely slowed down for me. Without the feeling of the world turning and churning at its regular pace I no longer feel the same urgent drive, though I still feel a strong consistent drive to make things—minus the more panic-inflected tone it had before. I find my sense of when I started and complete things is getting wonky, though. There are some things where I think “argh I’ve let that project sit for so long!” but then notice that I actually worked on it two days ago, and then I’ll discover I’m three months late returning a personal email. As the nights get longer and the grass outside gets roasted in the sun my natural inclination towards creativity is coming back as it does every year. I’m not sure I’m going to have daily blogging as a goal going forward because of the more subdued pace of life these days, but I will aim to keep it up regularly to anchor my sense of my artistic practice.