Transferrable skills, personal reflection. Means to an end.

I'm a bit grumpy.. I have great part time roles that offer me new skills that I can transfer to artist time..but I begrudge that I can't just Art. (Reality shocker)

But.. I thought it might be helpful to acknowledge where I'm up to

Google - has been fantastic new tool - sheets/ calendar/ forms/meet for collaboration - I think this will definitely be a great platform to run my self employment from, I'll change from my outlook professional email to this - its so much easier.

Canva - has been great for learning how to put posters and social graphics together

Branding and PR - Really insightful experience that's made me reconsider how I put myself out there as an artist. I fight with this because I don't want my time monopolised by social media and internet content - but I also know that if I don't show my art or promote an exhibition - it's detrimental.

There's such a difference between an AA2A teams workshop and a createch meeting - the client and digital focus clash with slow art and research based practice. The culture around industry v social discourse - there are some interesting normalised terminology that trigger a response in terms of my practice - such as underemployed - which was determined from a quick aunty google search as Underemployment is a condition in which workers are employed in less than full-time or regular jobs or insufficient jobs for their training or economic needs... 

   a condition!  like its a medical affliction and not a capitalist construction. Found a better description (Underemployment represents people who are working but are not working in a job that matches their skills or abilities, often leading to earning less than what he or she should earn.)

.. but I have to remember that all of the information gives me a really insightful and holistic understanding of how the world operates... and it pays for my masters. 

I've found new ways of screen dumping ideas and notes so that I don't lose them but am very aware that I need to pull some time to focus on my masters so that it's done well

Checked on some materials for a zine workshop and came across an old of page of mine, from foundation  in the examples which feels quite genuine. I keep having this conversation about myself about just arting and not getting lost down a rabbit hole...