I used to make a habit of it back in the day—restless tinkering, never quite being satisfied. In the last decade, although this site has been through a number of changes, I’ve been less inclined and not even sure what purpose the site served. For a long time the Portfolio section attempted to be an all-encompassing summary of everything I supposedly do, for example, and it never quite worked. So this time out I have focused it just on my artwork.
LOL, look—some people think my artwork is crap! But I have as much right as anyone to improve. I believe my portrait work has improved significantly in the last six years. Overall my stuff has enjoyed a more modest improvement. No doubt I have weak areas. But it makes sense to me to focus the Website on something in particular. It gets messy otherwise.
This blog, on the other hand, is rightly a sprawling dog’s dinner. No change there. Except that I’d like to treat it better and use it more. It sure has had its ups and downs. The last decade has been a weird time for me all round… and I don’t particularly mean in a good way… yet this blog has managed to express surprisingly little about all that.
This month on the 27th it’s the 20th anniversary of mom’s death. I can’t believe it’s actually that long. Ridiculous. Anyhow, I am going to do some stuff about mom. And this probably spurred me to re-animate the blog somewhat.
Meanwhile, restoring the archives continues… some 230 of approx 850 total posts are now available. It’s gonna take a while to sort it all out.