Point of interest
Intro!
Welcome to my creative journal!! How I hope this'll work is that I'll be uploading my research, inspirations, gallery visits and findings that I've gathered over the month here along with some overall reflections and some plans for future studies and plans. Most of my efforts this month - having started April 2024 - have been spent constructing the website, exploring my local art scene by talking to gallery owners and gathering social media pages. My aim to to build connections with like-minded practicing artists, networking is essential to building your creative career, but also a wondeful source of inspiration.
I've also been attempting to get back into regular reading! Books are an important tool for expanding general knowledge but also as a source of inspiration for creativity. I'm the type of person to immediately jump online for ideas and I'd like to be able to broaden my pool by having alternate references I can turn to.
Having this blog will be an interesting way of documenting my work, and online archives are secure stores for information for when I want to access my work again! In the grand scheme of my career, work could get lost, forgotten and replaced by newer projects, so this will be useful in the long term too.
Also, there are physical and mental benefits of reading like strengthening your neural pathways that can lead to stronger analytical skills and an improved memory, reducing stress and blood pressure and providing metal stimulation that can help combat deteriorating mental diseases.. good for you.
I plan to release a blog post at least once a month, discussing topics, current events and updating my reading list and reviews. This project is very much in the early stages still and I hope that as time progresses so will my website in terms of quality nad quantity.
Anyways thank you, and enjoy!