These two books were the final motivation I needed to create a blog. Sean Tuckers’s book is a philosophical, psychological and surprisingly vulnerable exploration of the importance of making art. “Your Brain on Art” (which I’ve nearly finished…) is more about the mental benefits from a scientific standpoint. The message I’ve taken from both is simple: just create, for your own sake if nothing else.
Now we’ve moved into the “slop” era of LLM’s and “Generative AI” this has definitely struck a chord with me. I’m under no pretence that anything here will be “good”, but it will be real. There’s no overarching theme or plan to what I’m going to post here, I bounce from video essays to photography to DJ mixtapes from one day to the next (neurodivergence FTW). There might be colouring book pages in Photoshop if I’m particulary happy with the results. I’m not chasing likes or trying to please an algorithm here, just making a digital scrapbook of sorts.