for years now i’ve been obsessed with journaling on paper in my sketchbooks. working on a style i suppose. or better a place to follow my folly. the wonderful thing about this process and time to accumulate “stuff” — patterns begin to appear. an eye and gravitation to a certain style that you borrow begins to form. this shape becomes your own. i’ve realized i just see the world with a certain perspective. i also have created a work flow that works for me.

in respect to this love of journaling — i’ve started a new path to take direction to the wall or canvas // time to scale up. test the nature of this thinking and design aesthetic. now begins a new journey into translation. translating the work from analog to digital. so this morning i was stepping into a new area of capturing the work – photography. the above picture is one of my first studio photo sessions — working to capture and translate the work.

this exercise in exploration of expanding my creative direction — well i think of it as swimming. i’m well off-shore from my normal process and yet at the same time very trusting in the fact that this idea will float just long enough to get me back to land soon enough.

part of me now writing this journal entry is my swimming back to land. not only do i have to translate the process but i also have to translate the thinking that allows me go out to sea and step beyond what i’m comfortable with. to be honest i need to make this sound good for dinner tonight with my wife when she ask “what did you do today in the studio?”

well dear i went for a swim.

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