Mythologies

 I deleted Instagram off of my phone this week, just in case I wasn't flying under the radar enough as it is. I found that I was mindlessly browsing it more and more, hardly uploading anything, and when I was it was just because I felt I should. Rather than prompting me to get in the studio, I think it made me less creative as I felt I had to exclusively make things that were good enough for Instagram. And basically, among all of the various bad things going on, money troubles and loneliness, I know that social media is not the answer, and it's just aspirational poison.

Anyway that's probably enough of that.

I finished my niece's Cardigan yesterday so that's ready to wrap up and give to her for her birthday next week. I will make one for my other niece's birthday in September, and then my mum has asked me to make her another aran jumper ready for autumn, which I will enjoy.

I watched the film Viva by Anna biller this week. I've been meaning to watch it for years as I'm a big fan of the love witch. I find it so exciting when I come by a filmmaker or artist who has such a complete vision for their work, and I've never come across someone with so complete a vision as Anna biller. I enjoyed viva, I won't watch it again for a while and it was a bit long and all over the place, but it was so rich and visually beautiful, and uncanny. It is good when you find an artist you can be really jealous of. 

I am desperate to put more time into my painting, I am the queen of the half finished project. For the last year I have been working, and am still working, on a series of paintings. Maybe this year I can finally get my teeth into it and feel like I can call myself an artist again.