fine art

Studying Art from Inside the Virtual

Black and white cinematic image of an artist studying art through a laptop in a virtual gallery, surrounded by paintings, notebooks, art history books, and Second Life imagery.

Studying art as someone who creates in Second Life has changed how I understand space, material, and presence. My practice doesn’t sit neatly inside the traditional idea of the studio. It moves between screens, avatars, regions, textures, objects, scripts, photographs, video, and lived digital experience. Second Life isn’t just a tool I use to display … Read more

Finding Peace in the Repetition

Black and white image of an artist sketching at a wooden table beside a peaceful garden pond, with a bridge, gazebo, flowers, notebooks, and the phrase Finding Peace in the Repetition.

The Self Being project has made me think differently about the value of ordinary, repeated tasks. Not the dramatic parts of making art. Not the polished final outcome. The day-in, day-out actions that often feel mediocre while they’re happening: setting things up, adjusting details, documenting work, moving materials around, checking sound levels, thinking through space, … Read more

A Year of Building the Work Into a World

Black and white image of an artist writing a year-in-review at a desk, with a laptop showing virtual builds, notebooks, photographs, candles, and a Second Life-style creative world outside.

This last year has been one of the most intense and formative periods of my art life. Not just because of what I made, but because of what the practice became. It stopped being a collection of pieces and started being an ecosystem: physical, digital, written, performed, archived, and very much alive.