It has been a long time since I’ve been here doing the thing. It’s been over two months and I’ve barely had time to put pen to paper or fingers to keys. I have been making. Not much. But some. Really, I’ve been reading a massive book and loving it. I have been saying to myself, over and over, “ you really should do a little review of this book when you’re done”. And I’m almost there now. A few hundred pages left and I’ll write said review. I might even post it here. Maybe. If it’s any good. The review, not the book. It’s a tried and true classic of a certain genre and I think widely regarded as at least decent if not good. Possibly great. I have been avoiding commentary and cliffnotes etc. on it to get an unadulterated take.

In my limited free time I have been working on a larger-than-my-usual scale watercolor bonsai. Not too hard, but some. I’ve been going slow because I want it to be better than I’ve been doing with the visual aspect of making. I haven’t been really thrilled with anything I’ve done in a while because I feel like I’m rushing everything. It’s a habit. A bad habit. I like things to be done. Sometimes I choose done over done well or well done. However, I’ve been working on patience. With art. With myself. With others. With everything. Less so with this blog.

I haven’t even thought too hard about this blog. It often crosses the mind, but I don’t dwell on the thing. I started this without any real idea of where to go or what I wanted to cover in this post. Just knowing that it’s been over two months made me anxious and feel like something, anything, has to be done.

So here I am. Doing something. Writing something.

There is a big picture idea in the works. Something that will really take quite a bit of time to complete. Possibly years. I’ve been researching how to do it, what platform might work best, how to pay for it. Everything. I’m planning on a massive time investment with a minimal financial investment. Hopefully. There is very little certainty with this idea of a project. It has been kicking around my brain and todos since I was at MICA. I’ve even had more than a few false starts on it. This could be the real start of a real something.

I don’t want to go into more detail here and now. But soon. Maybe very soon. I’ve got a long weekend coming soon and I’ll be outside of the normal space so I’m hopeful that without the regular rigmarole of regular life I can get started or get something else finished and get moving.

More will be revealed