Sharing is Caring
It feels very strange to add in the “share” buttons as this is the last newsletter in the series. As I’ve mentioned, I’m going to be closing this site down and moving any future photo work to a subsection of my main newsletter, Learned. If you’re curious to see what that looks like, whenever it appears, please feel free to go subscribe over there.
In the meantime, I’m planning to archive this site, which means that whenever I get the books put together, I’ll put the PDF versions up for free somewhere and then I’ll delete these posts. Dramatic, maybe, but I kinda want a clean start somewhere else and I’m tired of leaving digital breadcrumbs all over the internet.
What I mean is, some of my original blogs from when I was in my twenties are still out there in the digital ether along with a bunch of other projects, all of which I have archived for my own satisfaction and which don’t really need to be out there embarrassing me. But I’ve delayed taking them down. It feels too permanent as they can’t really be replicated as they are.
On the other hand, they’re full of dead links and missing images and references to people and places I can’t remember, so why bother to keep them up?
And, right now, at least, that feeling is transferring over to this site. I’m proud of the work; I want it to still be present in some form, but I think there are better ways to preserve it, which is why I plan to turn them into books.
Earlier this spring, I got to visit the Osaka Art Museum and catch an exhibit of works by Picasso and some of his peers. It was a great exhibit. I enjoyed my time viewing the works and I bought the museum book that catalogued and explained the different pieces, like I always do when I enjoy a museum’s work.
I’ve always been content to consider these books as souvenirs, as mementos from seeing these incredible works of art, without ever really stopping to consider what they do for the museums that publish them. The books allow the museums to free up display space, obviously, but it also means that they get to dictate how the exhibition is remembered. They get to choose the arrangement, organizing for resonance and nuance, but also, they get to correct mistakes that crept through the original exhibits and adjust the narrative however they see fit.
I want to do the same. And I will. Eventually. Until then, thank you so much for reading and viewing. Please feel free to follow along with all the other projects I get up to by subscribing to Learned at the link below.
Thank you.