the whispering well

having been working on my thesis for many months now, i can undoubtedly say that i have learned two things:

1. stealing sound effects, music, and videos from any place on the internet.
2. i am more confused and lost in this work than i was at the beginning.

i dont know how to say the things in writing- that is why i am an artist and not an author.

i have recently chosen a title for my body, the whispering well, coming from the song, after all, by dar williams. i chose this title and this song because it means a lot to me, personally, but i have been asked to take myself out of the equation. how is it possible for me to remove myself entirely as the author, narrator, and artist, when the entire body of work is an autobiography in a sense? i am enjoying making the work and feel that with each new piece, it is growing, but i am struggling with the inner meaning and concerns. i know what the work is about, but the viewers will never feel that or see that.

as roland barthes writes, “I cannot reproduce the Winter Garden Photograph. It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture, one of the thousand manifestations of the “ordinary;” at most it would interest your studium; but in it, for you, no wound.”

so how do i make my ‘winter garden photograph’ speak to the outside?

hello world... again

Here I am again, just shortly after a year since I starting blogging, starting again.

There were some severe technical difficulties with the server [thank you Sewanee] which caused my website to go in major malfunction mode. So with the help of some savvy tech people, my old blog was deleted and was left blank and white, ready and waiting for me to begin again.
This is the first post of [hopefully] many to come, and will [hopefully] be around a long time. I do have all my old posts saved on a word document, but am thinking that it might just not be worth the time to transfer over 40 posts and images onto the new blog. So we will see.

But for now, enjoy the blog, new site [portfolios coming soon] and the last ‘hello world’ post… hopefully.