For instance – culling through my new black and white photographs will be a task I must complete one day, but if I don’t feel like doing it now, I won’t do it. Also, not to mention my previous work in color that I need to work through… I purposely spent the past two years working on a completely new body of work so that I can be detached from it.
Now I have one more month of focusing on the production of new work until the Mummer’s Parade on January 1st. I will hopefully feel like digging into the archive once 2025 rolls around, but there’s no need to rush. I just don’t feel like it. Why force yourself to do something you don’t want to do. I’d much rather produce as much new work as possible.
My goal is to produce two greatly different bodies of work. It will almost feel like my color and black and white work was made by two completely different photographers which will be interesting.
I put my head down for two years straight not missing a single moment of every single day making new pictures. To be honest, it’s been this way for a decade, but the past two years have been different. I think I might be the first photographer to ever document their entire personal creative transformation daily through videos, photos, writing, etc. My life is a living work of art.
Having a creative breakthrough requires you to completely ignore the world…