So i’ve had this desire to start producing ‘blog’ content for a few months now, ever since Roz (StellarGirl) announced her idea for @weeklyblogpost back in February. Unfortunately that kind of writing didn’t really have a place on our technology-oriented site, EchoAbility.com, so I knew i’d need to start my own presence if I wanted a place to put all this ‘stuff’. Another unfortunate intricacy i’ve realized is an integral part of this bizzare desire to produce content – I have absolutely zero desire to ‘blog’. That is, produce public content, with a time-stamp, intended for regular reading, amassing subscribers, etc. I’ll leave that to the bloggers, and in the meantime i’ll use the medium to my own devices…
With the happening at the Junto in April, and some recent conversations with Libby and Roberta from THEartblog.org, I now have a bit of a different statement of purpose for this ‘blog’. It is not intended to be a publication – most of what I write here will be incomplete, unedited or in the process of being edited, and might end up being largely nonsense to most people who encounter it.
I mentioned the idea of using a live, unrestricted wordpress site as an ‘idea bucket’ – a place to store and develop my ideas – to Libby and Roberta at a brunch this Sunday with the Ladies and Rick Banister of P’unk Ave. Roberta immediately jumped at the idea with a bit of a positive twist – likening the idea to the editorial process that Zoe Strauss uses for her photographs. Exposing un-edited ‘work-in-progress’ as part of the creative process. Roberta mentioned that people initially thought it a horrible idea, but in the end the open editing process that Zoe employed became one of her many great successes.
I love this analogy so much, and its proximity to my first experience of Zoe Strauss exhibit under I-95 (that same fateful day in early may…yesterday in fact!) I’m devoting myself to it.
I am not weary of transparency. I don’t yet have a thought-out, developed editing process and i’m not trying to hide that. This will be my studio while I experiment to find that.
In the meantime, who knows what might develop.
