Misalignments and Mirrors - an offering

Last week I got to make something - closer to - what I want to see in the world. A video practice.

I touch on this in my upcoming newsletter, but what I miss about working in community spaces is the reciprocity of it - learning from how other people approach the work, and others learning from you. Plus, it’s a very relaxing thing to get to tune into someone else pulling a print.

Since I miss it, and can see how other people might enjoy it, I’m inching closer to making videos that get at this feeling.

Not only the rhythms and process, but print has always been a space, a structure and even a backdrop, for getting at more. Whether it’s through the reflection inherent in the process (literal and experiential), or just the time spent carving a block in the company of others, it suddenly opens up a space to be, and share. So it seems fitting to add my writing practice to it, and see what happens.

It’s my most technical video to date, which really just means I started thinking about video as a collage, setting up multiple angles and starting, stopping, circling back to tell the “story” of making a print, and less like an absolute reproduction of unfolding events.

But I had an amazing time!

I hope to share, and hopefully have you share in return, some things that you like to think about while making work - with print as a backdrop to conversations about just being a person.

Till next time, friends