Category: Personal
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reemergence
i was recently reminded by a “surprise” renewal charge on my card, that i have a blog. this blog. i was supposed to be writing a weekly one of these, but, i tend to pick up hobbies and then i kinda, forget. Or i get intimidated by my own unrealistic expectations, or i get all…
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collages and samples.
It’s no secret to anyone that knows me that I love hip hop. It is an art form that originates from the use of audio collages and samples. My favorite albums are mostly 2010s hip hop or hip hop adjacent records. The first album I ever physically owned was The College Dropout, by Kanye West.…
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Art as a language.
Any time I sit and think about human language I tend to get a little nauseous. I start deconstructing everything about it and I end up breaking through the absurdist veil. The crazy thing is that, as of right now, I couldn’t tell you what’s on the other side of the vail. I KNOW what’s…
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Creative Identity
Identity is a pretty complex topic. We can talk about it from all kind of approaches, from the practical to the highly philosophical. I personally think that our identity is a combination of the narratives we internalize about our place in the timeline of all the things we perceive to occur. If the world is…
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Selling my first art piece.
As a creative, I’m not sure which milestones are meant to be big events or celebrated, because the path we walk can be foggy as we travel it. Every creative mind is different and therefore has different ambitions or goals. I say this because I don’t want anyone to read this and think that I’m…
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Why I started this blog.
To be perfectly honest, I can’t think of a big, solid, justifiable reason to start a blog. I think it would be a lot easier for me to list out and elaborate on a few, smaller but very important personal reasons to start one. I guess I can start by saying that I like being…