Summer, stuff no one sees, an award in Cannes, Brat on repeat 🍏

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High Thought is an intimate infusion of (high) thoughts that are a mixture of frivolous and (sometimes) profound if I’m lucky. Written with consideration for those interested in the creative process or personal peek behind the curtain into a particularly chaotic brain room.

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🌸 Good morning/afternoon/evening, depending on where you are in the world. : )

It’s summer in the northern hemisphere. What a beautiful thing for our brains.

I’ve been trying to spend as much time outside as I can while I have the time at home. Lizzy and I love to get up early and go outside to work before it gets too hot. To be honest, I cannot speak for her. She hasn’t told me this. I, personally, love it.

Unseen stuff

What do you do with the hundreds of thousands of photos taken or pieces of art made? The ones that pile up on our phones, hard drives, cloud(s?), notebooks?

I wonder a lot about my intrinsic drive to make things, save things, and remember things. It’s as strong as my desire to sleep at night and wake up in the morning but I’m not sure why. What was it like in New York in the 70s when artists were making work and none of it went on Instagram? It stayed physically in their studios, people had to come see it, it had to be photographed, distributed thoughtfully.

I make a lot of photos and drawings and collages instinctively and they live in my notebook or the cloud or my computer. Sometimes I only look at them once and never again and that’s fine. I do want to see my friends’ sketches and iphone photos and little collages. I honestly dream of collectively decommodifing what we put online and expecting nothing in return, just sharing and showing each other what’s going on in a way that takes the pressure off the work to “perform” and just let it be.

In that spirit, here are a few things that can just be, maybe?

A collage I made this morning

Inspo for presenting information. This sign is great. Honestly it’s kinda Brat. 💚

When I leave my apartment, sometimes I’ll give myself a little photo challenge. Try to make photos…in my own neighborhood, on an errand, in a boring place, when I’m feeling anxious and need to clear out my head.

Here are a couple recently: