12/03/2026 – Hello World!
Hello everyone. I’ve decided to start making a blog. I’m conflicted as I know today online and offline, everyone is inundated with opinions, thoughts, facts, information. What you should, or should not be doing, how it should be done, what you should think, what you should say. I rarely put my work or words out into the universe, because I don’t want to contribute to that noise that inundates us all. On the other hand, I miss the days of Web 1.0 and the early attributes of Web 2.0, when the internet was more vibrant with creativity, individuality, a sense of humaness, and yes, javascript. It is during this period of the internet that I discovered many artists who were and are still my driving inspirations. They would write blog posts, ruminating on life, ideas, new work, shows; they would share photographs of moments in their personal life, and in doing so, an insight into what is influencing the work they create.
Today, the internet has become many sect’s of social structure that are shouting over one another. AI has not helped us become creative, or so far it hasn’t. It has just polarised us more, with bot accounts generating images, posting comments, following your account, in a means to influence what you think, say or share. I don’t see it getting better. Why is it that with the inception of this new technology, we have not outsourced administrative, mundane duties, but began to outsource our artistic roles. It is obviously the goal of these medium and larger firms/businesses, to create a tool that gives them access to a software that generates images, which increases earnings of the investors, shareholders, owners. They don’t represent anything, but are interested in any pursuit that creates capital. This is the lack of humaness I’m talking about, from the reasoning, production, and outcome.
I won’t be talking about AI any further, it is spoken about enough, it doesn’t inspire me, I have very little thoughts on it other than the ones I have already shared.
I hope this blog can become something that shares an insight into my art practice, the methods I develop and use to make my work (which people are more than welcome to use and expand on), fleeting thoughts that I have and you may relate to, or just some fluff to read when you have nothing better to do. I just want to contribute to human voices on the internet, that have no intention of selling you bullshit courses, bullshit subscriptions, or bullshit advertisements.
Todays accompanying photo: My cat Humbert on our drawing desk before messing it all up. He is one of my biggest inspirations.
