my PhD dissertation<\/a> (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.<\/p>\nThat 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…).<\/p>\n
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<\/em> happy are in your near future.<\/p>\nOh, and if you are in the US (or are a US ex-pat), don’t forget to vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-update","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1007,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/28\/new-to-the-blogroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":1570,"position":0},"title":"new to the blogroll","author":"nathaniel","date":"28 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, Johannesburg has all but shut down, and the galleries (and artists) are all pretty much on holiday until a few weeks into the new year. 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