One of my cyanotypes: Buttons from the button tin. About 2010

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

― Pablo Picasso

It seems that having the odd quote in your blog is the done thing to do, this one seemed most relevant to me at the moment as I can feel the dust gathering around me as I type this.

For most of us this last year or so has been out of the ordinary, changes in my life and work meant I had to spend more time at home. Then I broke the scaphoid bone in my right wrist at the beginning of October and spent 12 weeks in plaster, not the end of the world but it did prove very restrictive, I couldn’t drive or work and relied a lot more on other people to get stuff done. I found this difficult on top of the restrictions around the pandemic so I set myself some goals to keep myself active, one of these goals was to make a website…

During the first lockdown I had already set myself a goal to take more photos so it seemed to be reasonable that I should have my own photography website. Then I got to thinking that if I was going to do this then I should just make it an extension of my brain, like an extra memory card, I could record what makes me happy. I have a poor working memory, I am dyslexic and my organisational skills are chaotic at best. I have almost 50,000 photos on my drive, I am hoping that this will give me the kick up the bum I need to get them sorted out and store some of them on a website.

Final bit for tonight, as I have realised that I had gone over board on the goal setting bit, I love a bit of research, especially genealogy and local history. I’m often found wandering around a grave yard or trawling through an archive. My aforementioned memory problems often cause me to go over the same thing multiple times. I don’t mind doing it as researching things is a downloading process for me, it chills my brain, but just imagine how much more productive I could be if when I searched something I had already done it popped up with my own website, I could search my own website first!

Anyway this is a work in progress, I imagine that washing the dust away from my soul will be sporadic and work and weather dependent. It has taken six months to get this far, Youtube said it should take 45 minutes!

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

– Molière

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