It sounds counterintuitive - and maybe this makes me a bad artist (although let's be honest, I'll never be great) - but my resolution for this year is to take fewer pictures. It's kind of gotten out of hand, and I need to reel myself in (I'd like to say that I'll focus on quality over quantity, but frequently in my work process, quality has proven itself to be the byproduct of quantity) - and also spend time managing my backlog. I'm spending too much time barrelling forward, and I think that it's actually holding me back.
Maybe I'm wrong, and I have completely the wrong idea about this. I know that doing something a lot is what makes you get better at it. But I need time to manage, too. Not just create. I have years of good stuff I haven't even shared yet, and I need to curate my library of photos, fashion something of a portfolio, and figure out how to present my work to potential new audiences that are missing out. I want to get better at doing those things, too. And I don't want to wait forever to do it. Life is short. Not everybody is as young as I am, and I'm not even as young as I'd like to be. And there'll be nobody invested enough to manage my estate when I'm gone.
This year, I want to think further ahead than just this year.
I disagree a little with you zharth. I think you are a great Artist, always looking for the perfection. And you deliver it in such an admirable way. 💖💖💖 And quantity and quality goes perfectly together. As an amateur photograph, I know that taking a lot of successive pictures results in the perfect photo, the unique moment when the object is taken at the right time, in the right position with the perfect lighting. It is the same with your photos. And I know the joy you feel in creation, in the moment when you are naked outside and you express your freedom, your beauty, your pleasure to exist outside the norms. And it fascinates me enormously. We would all like to remain beautiful and young, but there is also a lot of beauty in maturity and you express it so well. Thank you very much for your art, for the freedom expressed, and the joy of the naked body. Of course, I would like to see all the wonders that you have taken in the past and that are waiting to be exhibited
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