All in archives
I never knew that eight years of creating blogposts would be a long term project with an approaching end date. My compulsion to archive my blogposts into hardback books signals my project is nearing completion to make way for new directions in my artmaking. The project has come full circle, what began as online documentation is ending the same way.
Looking back to where I was three years ago has shown my how much travel I crammed into 2022. Its like reliving my childhood slide nights as I compile a year of blogposts into my Year of Sundays 2022 blogpost book. I get to relive all those memories and keep them to reread at my leisure, analogue book style.
The creative process can be addictive and like any addiction has its highs and lows. Yet turning up for yourself in small ways eventually gives you ‘something to write home about’ even if it is only that you made something for yourself to enjoy.
How do you archive your creative oeuvre? I’ve been writing weekly blogposts since 2019 and have decided to create a series of books for each of the last 6 years. It seemed like a really daunting task but once I got started the momentum kicked in. It’s about making a start and committing to the project.
How important is it to archive your creative offerings? As I have been cleaning out the garage I’ve found storage tubs filled with advertisements for past projects as well as old daily journals from the past twenty years. Making decisions about what to archive and what to throw out can become quite a dilemma.
