...I’ve often been asked “well, what do you do?” to which I usually found a sense of pressure to respond with something which people can equate to some sort of profession. So I’ve said things like : “I’m a designer” “I’m a graphic designer” “I’m a motion graphics designer” “I’m an designer, I make animated motion graphics”… Which is only a few examples none of which include by presumption: “I make music”, “I draw” “I take photographs” “I study linguistics and practice hypnosis” or the ever-popular “I observe the universe in my senses, I interact with this universe through creative processes and observe results of these experiments. Remix.”
Then there’s “I’m a freelance artist” which, yes, most of the time DOES mean unemployed and that is actually one of the reasons we do it.
Even saying “I am an artist” has so often incurred the question “oh, what kind of art do you do?” that I thought by now I’d have an answer which felt satisfactory to me. Simple categorical answers all exclude too many elements and my more inclusive descriptions have ranged from meandering and unfocused (like some stages of my processes) to overintellectualizing self-indulgence. I make stuff. I play. I’m doing the same processes now as when I was a kid with markers and paper and action figures. Making universes. Playing with animation software now is like playing with Colorforms when we were kids. Adobe and Apple should figure this out and start marketing to 6 and 7 year olds if they want to be a part of the next cultural mutation.
Anyway, enough rambling for the moment.
So this site is my answer to the question “what do you do?” or “What are you doing?”