All in writing
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.
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.
Many artists find it difficult to write. I find it comes quite easy as I’ve been writing in one form or another all of my life. As an artist I have found that writing my ‘morning pages’ each day as well as writing a weekly blogpost help me work through ideas and stay accountable to myself.
