As much as I don’t miss MFA crits, I sort of do.

Visual culture matters to me immensely. I’m not sure if anything I do here is necessarily good or even coherent and although it’s not easy to sit down and write I manage it with some regularity. (That’s a big deal for me.)

Rest assured that if I post an image of yours, even if I don’t exactly agree with certain decisions you made, the fact that I posted it means that I believe some facet of your effort is meritorious.

I am a highly critical person, yes. But I do not see my role as a critic. I’m here and I do what I do because–well, I hate to admit it but I am kind of not exactly lazy but prone to inertia.

Unfortunately, I’ve found that progress requires momentum and I am shit at building it. I don’t always have things figured out and honestly I’d say ¾ of the time, by writing the posts I do, I am trying to work through some question I have about an image or a technique/process. It doesn’t always get me anywhere. But sometimes it does.

If it helps you work through something to, then all the better.