I’m excited about this website.  We’ve been working on this for years, not continually, and it’s a long project.  But it’s like a portfolio, and I think it’s cool, personally, just to see a record of where I’ve been.  It’s nice to see everything–not even everything–in one place, because you lose track of what you’re doing.  This website, compared to the old one, is just awesome. It makes such a huge difference with how you’re able to see everything, and that you can see it with your mobile device, and link to Instagram, and be able to blog, and have nice clean logical galleries that make sense, and there’s concise information.  I’m really thrilled. And even though some of the work is older, you see it in a new light, and it’s really exciting.

These projects–they move.  Fast. And there’s so much that goes into each project, and little problems that come up, and very strange challenges that you would never know from looking at the final piece.  So it will be really nice on the blog to be able to go into those a little bit and show what the challenge was and see how the thing is made, because there’s so much to it. Even with a big piece, just the engineering, say, or the fabrication of it.  You never see that. And it’s really fascinating. And the people that do that work are fascinating too, and they have interesting stories, and they solve problems… so I think that will be great. Plus I think the creative process too, to kind of divulge a little bit of that, all the things that go into a project, all the stories, and how it comes to be.  That’s certainly not a straight path either; it’s a winding road that goes back to the beginning and then goes further and then loops around and then goes up four hills before you end up at some kind of destination. It’s really exciting.

I mean, I’m able to Instagram, when I’m out there on a site, say, just recording the process, not a formal photo shoot, I just want to be able to get it out there fast so I do an Instagram post, but there’s no room to explain and go into detail like there will be on the blog.  And hopefully there’s something to that, too, that’s not just the presentation of a final work but that maybe connects with others about people who are doing creative things and the struggles we all have.