Library Of Moments -tiled catalougue

Reflection of Instagram archive 

For a year I have delegated myself the task of collecting, editing and posting daily stories. During the 365 moments of digital release my brain has adjusted. Thinking through the frames and software that facilitates digital recording my perspective of the world has become forever shifted. Like clay tools next to my wheel the settings on my camera have become instruments for me to adjust the flavours of my artistic expression. A tool integrated into one's practice is reflected not by the settings of the recording device but by the change of how the artist imagines they can capture the world. A telephoto lens may flatten the landscape drawing parallels in the audience's eye, while a well timed pan can change the tone like Tchaikovsky setting off a cannon in the orchestra pit. All these are tools that can afford new visions to the creator.

Tools will change the qualities within an artwork. The artist, by virtue of using those very tools will in turn change the qualities of their own psyche. After a year of dedicated practice I look at my surrounding environment differently. My eyes don't just see colour and light but stories and motifs, all laid bare and all ripe for the recording!

For a year I have pushed myself to create a catalogue of footage, as of today it's three and a half thousand videos in size. As I sit I am swamped in by this backlog of recordings. Inaccessible information is exactly that; inaccessible. It's only through sequencing and archiving that a library comes to life. I need to stop, collect, archive and edit beyond the 365 snack-size pieces I have already produced. That's why I am stopping my daily stories so I can spend the time necessary to work out my own dewey decimal system for the behemoth of data saved to my hard drives. 

Whether it's the silica crystals in the clay I throw or the silica chips that record my footage my eyes will forever look to what can be captured in my artistic expression. I do not know what the next 365 days will bring to my practice, only that I know I will have more instruments and ideas at my disposal than I have today.