I’ve been spending the last couple of nights ramping up my website overhaul that I’ve been putting off for a year. I’ve known I needed to do this, but honestly, it felt like too much work. I had too many other things that I wanted to do that were more fun that doing basically what I do for 8 hours a day anyway (excuses excuses…). This site sat in a disheveled state for a long time and I would dread writing in it because promoting it meant people seeing the rough state it was in, the out of date bio, the lack of pretty pictures…What was the point?

What was the point? that’s a really good question. Actually, Chris asked me that the other day. “Why do you blog?” I wasn’t quite sure how to answer it because I didn’t know what I wanted this site to do for me. I thought about it more and I came to the conclusion that I want this site to promote things that I’m doing, things that I’m passionate about. It’s a portfolio site but it’s also a process site. Putting my work out there for people to see is a terrifying thing, but the act of putting it out there gives it more value, more weight for me. Letting people interact with it instead of just letting it sit in my house and gather dust. Sure, I use Twitter and Google+ to quickly post blurbs about what I’m doing, but for some reason this website makes it official for me.

I feel like I’m still looking for the answer to Chris’ question, but I’m close to defining it better. This site is as much of a process to me as any of my art projects are. I’m pretty sure the structure is set, now I just need the content to fill it. I think I do pretty interesting things, they’re interesting enough to share. That’s why I want to blog.

After spending a few hours tonight building out the Stencil Art section as well as the Community Involvement section and having certain frustration with image alignment, I’ve decided I have to walk away and do something like cuddle up with my dog and read.

Thanks for your patience with all of this. Even though this is a down right pain in the butt, I’m glad I’m doing this.