Feeling liberated in 2020, welcome to my brain dump.
I’ve been doing random contract work and freelancing (predominantly photography related) here and there probably since I was in high school, which in 2020, was probably about 5 years ago now. But still, most of my real work (as in putting money in my bank account consistently real) came from doing day jobs like coaching soccer or working in a chocolate shop. Once I got to college, freelancing opportunities became a little more frequent, yes, but even after I graduated I still always needed something on the side to support myself.
But no matter what that other job was, it always drained me and left me feeling like too much of my time and energy was being misused, mismanaged, and wasted. If I have learned anything over the years, its how important it is to protect those things aspects of yourself, if you want to be a successful creatorand just a happy individual in general, you have to properly maintain and protect your time and energy.
So after working for so many terrible men, and terrible places, and for so many poorly managed companies, at the beginning of 2020 I quit all of my day jobs and dove head first into freelancing like I never had before.
I knew what I no longer was willing to for money. I started experimenting with all the creative ways I could look for work and get paid for my actual talents. Like I said, i’ve always been a photographer, but instead of jumping right out of the gate into the world of being a profitable photographer I jumped into the world of design. Why? I’m not sure.
I just sat down at what ever tool I was using to create and instead of making work the same way I always have, I started making work unlike anything I had ever thought before! I’ve always made photographs and shorts films but I started making album covers and typography designs?! I don’t know where this came from because I’ve never made this kind of work before but I quickly just let my brain take off and create in any direction it wanted.
A new world of possibility for my art has opened up. I’m not sure where its going but I’m going to be tracking my progress here. Photographs, videos, designs, typography, motion graphics, writings, documentation, all of it— anything my brain can produce right now, i’m brain dumping here.
In addition, in an effort to reground myself and reconnect with the world around me I want to document daily— then share those images and thoughts on here as well.
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