I’ve been here for two weeks now
I’ve been able to go out, see galleries, see shows, go to work, hang w friends, even a lil gym membyship. Street art, sculptures, jewelry, digital art, all that. It’s been everywhere, and it’s amazing. Arguably too amazing🤨
Between my shenanigans I’ve been working in some pieces. I made a stopmotion last week, and it was good but I’ve j hit tech issues recently. They’ve been a great and accessible way for me to produce pieces within my schedule. It’s a very finite medium, and they’re r clear steps and paths to go thru, so I can’t overthink anything, and have a good amount of restrictions in its creation.
But I’ve also started a woodworking! It’s been legit months since I have carved anything (august?) so this is a beautiful moment rn. It’s a jewelry box! I can truly fuck around. It’s also a commission👀 so this has been a great reintroduction to the medium. If this goes well, maybe I can b in a bit of a box era? I’m boxing?
but now I’ve hit a dilemma. It’s one of my fav dilemmas, cuz everything I do is the right option. Figuring out wat to do.
The city has been too damn inspiring. Too many ideas, too many things I wanna do, and truly not enough hands to do this. It’s getting to a point where I’d prefer cloning over teleportation as a super power. There’s so much I wanna do that I lost my direction. I’m trying to see what I’m cutting off - my mediums? My methods of sales? Backend work?
All while I want to do so much-go to shows, apply to gals, meet ppl, experiment w products and luxury goods, try jewelery making, experimental graffiti (???), more stopmotion series’s, marquetry, wood designs, studies, read and shit. Omg like wat to do.
My most disliked answer would be to think abt it, as it would lead to me procrastinating. Tragic, but I do like a nice mind numbing.
Everything here feels very deadlines and finite, but ik that that’s rly not the case. Accepting that idea is something else tho
Alas, we move
Love
Faraz
Ps. In an attempt to curb my not-being-on-phone time vs regular time, I have been reading on the train. I always wanted to b those ppl that read on trains - immersed in a reality that nobody else can see, but in a way that keeps them further exploring realities and thoughts only shared amongst the book’s readers. Currently reading: Orientalism by Ed Said. J finished reading: White: whiteness and race in contemporary art. It was a quick read, but it stopped talking about race in contemporary art, which may show the difficulties of discussing race in contemporary art.😭.
PeeS. I’m in my 9/5 era and I only get like 3-4 hours of functional free time in the weekday. Usually an hour is being online, but I wanna at least break that in half. I j need to sleep earlier so I’m more effective when I’m creating too so eh
PeeAss. I got a gym membership again. And I want that to b a priority now that I’m v sedentary.(I’m sat). Do I know wat I’m doing? Enough. Lowkey I j wanna use power tools and wanna build endurance for that sooooo eh
oui. pay my rent cuz ima b raising prices soon.