It’s a good thing this blog came with a caveat regarding its occasional-to-sporadic nature, but I’d say I’ve been pushing the boundaries of this into something more like non-existence. Back now with a few updates from the past six months.

While fall and winter 2017 were easy-going for the most part, spring 2018 was largely a blur. Key components of this were an extra-heavy teaching load (beginning with pre- and post- spring course intensives bookending a crushing 4-course spring load), new M.O.B projects in Manila and Hong Kong, intensified duties during a highly stressful period at the arts org I’m on the board of, planning and coordinating a major half-day symposium in Berkeley, and flying to Southern California to give a couple of lectures. Oh, and planning and co-hosting my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary celebration in late June. Plus some protests here and there. I’ll piece out some of these events in separate posts, but all this to say it’s been a doozy.

This pattern is nothing new, and I’ve certainly written about it before: I regularly go through insane flurries of work where anything nonessential falls to the wayside, followed by long periods of inertia where I’m on the wayside myself. One might acknowledge these slow stretches as necessary recuperation and regeneration, but sometimes… they’re really just straight-up inefficiency and sloth. I accept some of this, while still trying to con myself into imagining and creating without an agenda, too. Returning to keeping my art journals is usually a good way to do this.

In any case, I am now one week into what I hope to be an extended period of reflection and anticipation; updated news and more to follow.