When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something for myself. It feels dishonest and disrespectful of where I’m at. I’m not the best, so why should I try to make the best things? I’m just me, so I should make me things.

How to Tell If you Need More Exploration…

• You regularly feel burned out

• Showing up to create feels like a grind . There’s no joy in it.

• You find yourself procrastinating more than usual

• You’re only writing stories in a certain genre because it seems to be popular right now

• It’s been a while since you let yourself make “shitty art”

• You feel

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For a while, during that disillusioned spring, I declared myself done with writing. Photography became — and still is, more and more so — a way for me to create with spontaneity and play. I haven’t been a photographer all my life, nor have I been especially interested in photography. I only began shooting film during the pandemic, when documenting... See more