Filling the gap between the timeline and the thing
Sometimes you see something on your timeline. Could be anything. A piece posted by someone you follow that just lands. Is it a one off piece? Is it a sneak peak to a new collection? How did you make that? Where did the idea come from? And then you take all your thoughts and questions and transfer them to your hidden folder in your brain. Because what else are you going to do? There's nowhere to go for context.
A piece posted by someone you follow that just lands. You don't even know why.
I've been making stuff since I was a teenager. Started on walls. Graffiti, street art, the whole thing, and it just kind of never stopped. I kept going, kept changing. Paintings, installations, digital work, exhibitions, wooden sculptures hanging from telephone lines. Things I can't quite put a label on. 25 years of making things in public and I'm still not totally sure what I am, which is fine.
Paintings, installations, digital work, wooden sculptures hanging from telephone lines. Things I can't quite put a label on.
The way I work is, and I'm not sure this is a method so much as just how my brain operates, I start with a simple idea and see what happens. I don't have a finished thing in my head that I'm working towards. I've got a starting point and a general direction and then a load of wrong turns and accidents and mistakes and stuff that doesn't work until eventually something does.
I don't have a finished thing in my head that I'm working towards. I've got a starting point and a general direction.
The problem is none of that ever gets seen by anyone. You get a few snapshots on the timeline during the process with no real context to the thoughts or motivation behind it. So your entire process is invisible to everyone and now the finished thing has to do all the work. On its own. Your idea is reduced to a picture competing with a kazillion other pictures. And the two months of chaos before it, the version that completely fell apart, the weird tangent that became the whole idea. All that just evaporates.
So I built this.
It's a V1 attempt at an open window into my mental studio. Upcoming ideas, live drops, work in progress, the stuff underneath the stuff. You can follow something from the first rough idea through every questionable decision until something finally lands. Or doesn't. Sometimes it doesn't. And that's also fine.
You can follow something from the first rough idea through every questionable decision until something finally lands.
So if something I made or did or said caught your eye somewhere, this is where you come to go deeper.