This summer I have a few things that I'd really like to do, creatively and for my own personal health and well-being. 


I've noticed something this year either because it has been a new development or I've just been blind to it for a while now. I have had a loss in creativity, no drive to do art outside of the confines of my studio on campus. I'm not sure why that is. I can remember days when all I would do is create! I'd draw, paint, make something out of nothing, photograph. There was never a dull moment because my imagination was constantly running away with me. My heart was in it. My lack of motivation to continue on is starting to take its toll on me. I can hear my creative heart gasping for revival. Certain aspects of my life have fallen flat. I think that I have spent enough time avoiding doing what I really love to do and I am entirely too ready to jump back into it!


This summer I plan to start in easy and I'm confident that I'll fall into a steady flow. There will be some sort of creative release. I'll be free again. I'm so excited! Along with that, I want to fill my body with nutrients, I want to treat myself well. My health, mental and physical, is quite important to me now days. About time? Who knows. I still have a pack of Oreos in my cupboard that are calling my name. Small indulgences. . . they can't hurt.


Goals:

• Take my camera everywhere. I want to build up my portfolio (of sorts) with more images of other people, lomography style stuff with film and disposables, more self-portaits. I just want to get in the habit of documenting. I want to learn to capture all of the right moments, the quirky ones. Along with that I want to better my Photoshop skills and my online publishing.
• Draw every day. I have so many empty sketchbooks that have been collected throughout this past year in hopes that they'd inspire me to start filling them up. I was wrong, but I think that I'm ready now. I want to draw every day until I feel like my days are missing something when I don't do it. Let the creative juices flow!
• I want to, with the images that I take over the course of the summer, write short story tidbits to go with each image. Fictional entries that allow me to whisper sweet nothings to an unknown audience, that allow me to release the little romantic notions that fill my mind and have no where to go. Perhaps by the end of it I'll be able to publish some sort of book.
• I want to turn this into a photo diary type blog every now and then because sometimes my life is better explained through images.