As expected, all plans change when presented with the reality of something. Rather than it being solely in your head anymore. You can sketch and fantasize all you want. But then it happens, and it’s never what you think. In this case, it’s better.

I arrived in the gallery with a sense of all the work I’ve already done, not having a gauge on how much I’ve changed these last few months. So a lot of things went right out the window once I really got rolling. It took me about a day to realize how these were going to grow; it didn’t involve anything I had tried to make ahead of time, so I’m glad I didn’t sit around making assemblages as I had originally planned.

I’m very excited. This is the beginning. No pop song titles, none of that.

Not writing here has been great, and I feel so much better (for non-blog related reasons). Instead of tearing myself apart every time I hit publish in my editor, I just dump all my (increasingly, now that I have that freedom) stupid thoughts for the day into a word document. So I’m going to keep that going, this is just to say that I can’t wait to post the final images. They are going to be incredible; I have an incredible and generous photographer who is going to regret saying yes to helping me again when I start telling him my list of demands. Also, the last one was notoriously hard to light and he fake-complained the whole time. So now there are three! Thanks again, Jim!