How are people around me still engaging in creative action in a country where arts funding has been slashed? What does it look like to remain playful and creative as neighbors’ homes are being raided, as a local highschool graduate is deported, as a population is wiped out before our eyes and with the aid of our nation, and as the creative action outside of commercial value is positioned as valueless? Art making and creative inquiry is still happening, even if it’s been quieted.
I feel myself drawn to a series of Process Documentation. I have been drawn to peeking in on this community I have fostered (of artists, thinkers, writers, even psychoanalysts), as an observer and supporter. In an act of research, I’ve been filming the process of my fellow curious, as they create works - studying quietly via video, and for the moment, distilling still images of these connections to share.