There is too much change that needs to happen in the world. Change is a BIG word with big implications and big actions that have to be taken. Everyday my list of what I would like to see happen differently in the world gets longer and heavier. I have a lot of ideas and they swirl about my head like high pitched buzzing mosquitoes threatening to suck me dry until I can catch one. Then once captive I realise I hold in my hand a small caterpillar, pulsating with readiness and eventually bursting through its chrysalis shell and out into the world. This shitty butterfly metaphor isn’t indicative of my best ideas but is always a good one thrown onto the table when we’re talking about change, metamorphosis and all the time and hard work that goes in to it.
My areas of interest remain constant in my life and flutter around, like said butterfly, concentrating on one for a while and then onto the next for a bit. I am weaving invisible webs between them all (wow now we are onto spiders, you can tell it’s Spring right?) Interconnecting constantly but perhaps only in ways visible to me as yet. I know they’re important themes and I know that I can make change, affect outcomes, I’ve seen it in happen before my eyes, for reals, in many small ways but as yet I haven’t managed to cast a net wide enough to catch them all.
Let’s be honest, the start of this blog is a good indication of how I will probably continue. I am a creative, I am an artist, I can’t write you a formal plan of my ideas and how to research and execute them. I’m not coming from a career path of corporate systems or brand identities, I’ve never had a job where I had my own cubicle or desk. My background is busy, it has random changes, a lot of it is space I have carved out for myself for well many reasons and for the last ten years I have kept three small humans alive and thriving at the same time and on very little sleep. If you want a job done, give it to a mother, they can survive on caffeine and oxytocin alone and they know how to prioritise the shit out of a set of tasks.
My point here is this, I make sense of things in a very non-linear way and this blog will probably reflect that. I cannot think straight if I don’t make anything regularly and that will most likely be evident too. I process everything through a creative practice and this blog and subsequent research will most definitely attest to that also, it’s probably, in fact most definitely not going to sound like “professional” research and I’m at peace with that. If you can stick with me wading through this visual soup I think it’ll all taste good in the end.