My work is about identity. I want to understand how people define themselves outside the common one-line identity tags of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, social class, nationality, home of origin, current living place, body type, or profession. What does it mean to be an individual human?
I am an object maker, as unfashionable as that may be. If not making work at the studio I am baking, knitting or in some way creating objects.
In studying identity I ask myself how much personal information I should reveal in the work. All art is inherently about the maker, but how much personal information is appropriate to expose directly?

Michael Wesch has done research on what I was writing about earlier with regard to the unknown audience. He calls it context collapse. His thoughts on the role of YouTube are brilliant.

Email at the University is like a 9-5 racquetball game. 9:10 hits and my Inbox is flooded. All day messages keep flying toward me at various angles. There is lull for lunch and a rush after. Nearing 5:00, the pace slows. Then there are the professors who do their emailing at 11:00 at night. I swing and serve as quickly as I can. Reply, archive, delete, delete, spam, star, reply, archive, compose, label, archive, delete, label, reply all, archive, delete, delete, delete...

reading through my blog postings from a few years ago, i miss the vulnerability and humor that i expressed then. now i'm always writing "appropriate" things. blogs about personal stuff are hard to focus. who is reading it? i do want to express myself, but i don't want something i say on a whim that will negatively affect my career. i could limit the readership to the people i invite, but that would feel a bit claustrophobic and cowardly. i've only had 23 visitors in the past month, so it's pretty safe to write whatever. maybe i should put a disclaimer on the blog.
my head is so full of academic seriousness, i'm incapable of saying or doing anything creative. :-p