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To put it simply, observer is my shorthand for ā€œobservational artist.ā€ In a lot of my personal work, you might notice images of nature, flowers, trash, signage, grafitti, as well as statements about looking, listening, researching, learning, etc. I approach a lot of my personal work as a sort of messy scrapbooking exercise. I am constantly noting things I observe around me by either writing about them or taking photos. This act of collecting often finds itself getting translated through my personal work.
Why not just say artist? Well, I don’t really consider myself a ā€œcapital Aā€ Artist in whatever sense that means. Maybe it’s imposter syndrome, maybe I just don’t feel like I deserve the title. On the other hand, I don’t consider the commercial practice of graphic design to be art, either. So therein lies the dichotomy of presenting myself. I don’t personally relate to my commercial design work, so I would like people to be aware of my personal artwork as an equal part of my outward expression. So I came up with this title as a response to the anxiety of using the word ā€œartistā€ to describe myself.




Below you’ll find an interactive version of my Are.na channel, ā€œobservationsā€ which compiles various selects from my camera roll. This is my frame of view, these are the things I look at out in the world and admire, for whatever reason. It’s not interesting at all, and that’s the point. I think there’s magic in the mundane.



(Feel free to click forward and back on the images below)