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7. Looking Ahead
Although I’ve stepped away from institutional teaching, I haven’t stopped working. If anything, the shift has made room for a quieter kind of focus — a return to the studio, to image-making, to language and sound, and yes even to code. The questions that shaped my earlier work still remain: How do we make meaning from memory? How does technology alter perception? What does it mean to build poetic systems in a world of constant distraction?
In this new phase, I’ve been revisiting long-held ideas with fresh eyes — returning to archived fragments, abandoned sketches, old text loops and broken image sequences. I’m interested in what endures, in how older work can be reframed, or reactivated, not as nostalgia, but as conversation. Some of what I’m exploring now lives in the space between forms: photography, sound, found footage, ambient systems, programming languages. I’m drawn to structures that resist resolution, that shift each time you return to them.
Without the constraints of deadlines or curricula, I’ve been able to slow down. To listen more closely to the work itself. To make things that don’t need to announce themselves immediately.
What comes next isn’t fixed. But I know it will continue the same thread that has always run through my practice: a belief in attention as a creative force. A respect for complexity. And a commitment to shaping spaces – whether material, virtual, visual, or textual — that invite reflection, ambiguity, and feeling.
The work is still unfolding. It always will be.