Public Knowledge

In this, my "forgotten blog" I have dropped to an annual post. Annual? Yeah, pretty sad. But maybe it is just that "how much can you share and in how many places" overwhelming feeling that sweeps over me. I like to keep myself busy and hope that that action inspires others to live their dreams, but sometimes I feel like it is becoming information overload. I mean really...you have to make time to read blogs and look up websites. As an artist, we do a lot of web based research now. I come home from social events clutching fist fulls of business cards from interesting people that I have met. Although I would rather be a paper pen pal, I end up learning a lot about them online.

We each have varying degrees of information that we share. I reveal a lot more than I want to sometimes, but I tend to stay in a reflective mode that is geared for the public. I recently built my website that had come crashing down in the fall of 2007. It rose like a Phoenix from the ashes of doom, and somehow it continues to take shape. I had to really prod myself to do it, even though it is made with a template it still was an endless amount of learning and just plain hard work. With websites, with every decision, there is another 3 to be made. What compounds the learning curve is that I feel that I am never quite able to hang it up here in New York city. I am always busy chasing after some illusive goal. Reflection comes when staring out of a Starbucks cafe window.

New York is not a restful place, even when you lock yourself in. It is a living breathing creature that is full of energy even in it's quietest hours. Compounded by the endless work that it takes to be a contemporary artist, I find myself typing away like now...at 1:30 in the morning. So on that note, that is all for now. I must sleep in this sleepless city.