Reviving This Blog

Hello. It is 2020. We have been quarantined for 8 weeks. It's time to revive this blog.

I've been making a lot of art. I don't share it all on Instagram, because I don't want a profile of 10 consecutive paintings. Additionally, the design process is really fun and interesting for me to talk about, and yet my sisters cannot listen to another word from me. So I need a new outlet...

New watermark Almost exactly 4 years after abandoning this travel blog, I'm fixing the broken links and giving it a second life for art stuff. Somehow, this blog platform is even more outdated than before and my old email subscription engine broke. You can subscribe again here or in the left bar -- and you'll get post notifications in a pretty, new email template.

Revisiting this old blog, I still like the design a lot. However, some of my old writing is super cringe. So be kind, and maybe don't judge old posts. And I'll be kind to myself too, because I'm 90% sure this post is going to be cringe-inducing in a couple years as well. Or way sooner!

That's all! Welcome back, us!

If you're interested in more rambles about what's transpired over the break...

Before I abandoned it in 2016, this blog was a creative outlet that helped me find some balance to an all-consuming new job. When I got busier, I stopped investing the 10-15+ hours it took to create each post. But along the way, I also lost touch with a huge piece of creativity in my life, and forgot the joy of obsessing over side projects purely for the fun of it.

This time last year, I took a long vacation from work and stumbled into acrylic painting. When I picked up a creative hobby again, it was like opening a cupboard of favorite snacks that you had forgotten about. That's simply not done!

Now, being in a different place in my life, art means something different than before. More than ever, I need it as a way to stretch my mind, think non-linearly and embrace that there's no perfect standard. I am still low-level anxious to finish each painting as quickly and as close to my vision as possible, but I'm working on finding ways to enjoy each part of the process as well. I hope you enjoy going through this creative process with me, if anyone out there has more patience to listen than my poor quarantine buddies!

Faith