We drown in images, our rivers burst their banks and overflow with visual content. Yet just as three days without water would make the memories of past abundance meaningless, if you remove our ability to capture light we will find ourselves desperately seeking new images, unable to sustain ourselves on past supplies. It is not for want of past beauty captured or ideas enacted, rather it is because there is always something new approaching, a sunrise that's just right, a retel

When I ask them for feedback they wont placate me, there'll be no false platitudes or white lies, there will just be the work. The work with all its faults and glories, the work with a underlying flaw that requires whole sections be rebuilt and reworked, the work with its need for minor polish, the work they dont like personally but understand as a facet of craft and concept. Sure we may disagree over the severity of some of those faults, one of us may believe the works core

This narrowing of scope is perhaps something all artists go through, an unintended but understandable fixation on each work as singular, resultant from the necessities of repeated practice and technical study. A need to improve skill x or y, so the art becomes exemplars of that practice, rather than that practice being integrated in to something larger. This can create an unintended loop wherein each skill is developed only in so much as to achieve proficiency, and then the n