“Recently I read The Digital Workplace is Designed to Bring You Down, a New York Times Magazine interview with Cal Newport, a computer-science professor at Georgetown and author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. The points he makes around work, technology and the digital ecosystem we all swim in, specifically that the current pace and methodology is decidedly unproductive and detrimental to our more expansive well-being, prompted a significant response internally.

’SHIT, HE’S RIGHT! *&^(*&%(*&!!KLJH()&!’

My immediate thought went to the hours I waste on Instagram daily, scrolling through other people’s work at a 1.75 second clip per post or story, completely disregarding seeing the work, what it’s communicating, the energy it gives, the small moments of power, joy, humor, grief artists are releasing into the world.

Art’s not meant to be experienced that way.

So, here we are, my experiment in slowing things down, pumping the brakes, taking the time to linger, allow myself processing time after seeing, share from my chest the internal process of what it is to make art with you.

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