Since January, I’ve been working on a few projects. I’ve finished up my sponsored travel for the year and released a limited edition of Valley Moments of all the articles and photos I’ve taken on my trips. Additionally, I’ve launched my online store. This store is just more for personal endeavors as I make and launch things and redesigned my homepage to fit this store’s theme. I’ve been really working on organizing my work into themes/ideas; ‘Inquiry’, ‘realize’, ‘wanderlust’, ‘multimedia’, ‘on view’ – by doing so this helps me see where each project goes into my portfolio as I continue to work with brands and institutions and larger organizations. 

I have also been working on setting up my physical studio. This month I purchased a workstation from Ikea and was able to move and unpack my darkroom photography equipment to that shelving/workspace. I moved my microscope and just feel a bit more put together and ready to work. Sometimes I hate feeling the need to have my space be ‘ready’ in order for me to do things, but I’ve always felt this way, it makes me motivated. 

I am also no longer with the Pioneer Valley Mycological Association. I’ve explained why more in-depth in a previous post but I felt they completely took advantage and wasted my time and accused me of being difficult to work with when in reality all I’ve done was provide professional services with opportunities to learn why it should be done this way. They also didn’t understand that the rigidity of a brand identity is part of why it makes it a brand identity and not something you can continue to change with each edition of something. 

I’ve continued with my music practice, and started to learn Bach’s Bwv1009 and Eine Klein Nachtmusik on the keyboard. I’ve also started to learn a bit more about how to record strings and I think I’ve got to see it as not a midi signal but more of the sound of string instruments, so record them as if I was playing a string instrument rather than a keyboard/piano.