Hello world, and Happy New Year!
Sorry for the near-silence over the last few months; I have been feverishly working to complete Chapters 1 & 2 of my PhD dissertation (which I will present to a committee at the end of the month), so that I can move on to the rest (Chapter 3 will be a paper at a conference at the Univeristy of Edinburgh in March). My goal is to get a draft of the whole thing in by mid-Summer, so don’t expect too much from me in the form of blogging in the interim. I am, of course, still working on several art projects – prints, interactive, video, sculpture, and some combinations thereof – but these are slow-going along with the writing and being a broke grad student again, and so many may only premiere late this year or thereafter. I will say, however, that I think, through the research, my outlook on production has shifted in interesting ways that will benefit my work – I just want to make sure to give it the time it deserves before putting it out there.
That being said, this is also how I’ve been feeling about blogging – I don’t have the time to give posts the attention they deserve these days, so I think, “better to say nothing for now.” I appreciate all those who read my daily posts on art and politics while I was living in South Africa (thanks!), and hope to one day get back to regular posting about local art, wherever I am – but it may be a while before that happens (if ever again; there are so many good bloggers out there now – better writers than me – and also more and more online access to SA art, which was what a lot of my site used to be about…).
Hope all of you had a nice holiday like I did (I saw family and brought my daughter to disney world – uploading photos to flickr now), and that writing, art-making and/or other things that make you happy are in your near future.
Oh, and if you are in the US (or are a US ex-pat), don’t forget to vote.
