I feel like the 1st post is somehow magical. Like I can’t just dive straight into writing ‘real’ stuff just yet – there needs to be some kind of introduction, some kind of beginning…. like:
The rest of my artistic life starts here and now.
This is not a new chapter but a whole new book.
OK! that that is a bit dramatic! In reality this is exciting… a bit of a buzz…
but also a relief somehow because it is something I have been thinking about and procrastinating about for weeks. Months. Years even.
I have been standing at the open gate looking out into the trackless forest and waiting. Waiting until the ‘right time’, until I have enough skills, a big enough folio, enough start up capital, a better computer, a defined style/brand/look ….. etc. etc. etc. I have been boggled by the distance to the destination – not even knowing what the destination looks like – and I forgot that every journey begins with but one small step.
So I have spent all week trying to find the right theme then all day today fussing over the look of it and have probably made complete a hash of it, and it is not quite what I really want, but having never played around with CSS sheets and so on before it was rather interesting and is a start at least. Give it a couple of months and I might have another shot at a different theme.
Now, I am through the gate and trying not to look wistfully back over my sholder, trying not to feel afraid of the unknown world out there. Time to forget what the site looks like and start puting up some real content…
Anyway, I am looking forward to the adventure and to meeting the other people / artists / designers / craftspeople out there in the trackless forest.
All I have to do is make a start
So here goes…
See you out there.
