Reflection on the past | 13.07.2022 edition

Here comes the time I turn 23, and it doesn’t have me wondering about the passing time, but thinking about the achievements I hoped I would accomplish.

All I know for now, is this: I’ve been an artist ever since I’ve known the taste of the definition of this term.

When I was little, I wished to be a huomo universalis. I wanted to know a lot and be able to do a lot. Since I am part of the photography and design world, I feel like I’m achieving this state of mind more and faster than ever.

I have a sense of leadership, however I tend to not show it unless I see it would be a fitting approach. I have somehow channeled this behaviour towards giving lessons to children for about 3 and a half years. Through them I grow, as they grow beside me.

Another I’ve experienced many times, is that I don’t posses things, they can just break. I don’t possess people, it’s their choice if they believe they should stay. I don’t posses anything.. but my art is just something I possess indirectly because every time I make something I give a part of me away. While reflecting about my results, I found a number of the works’ aspects characteristic to my own self.

And so I realised, by remembering a quote “I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe”, that I created this whole project based on myself — on what I believe, feel, think — which is called life.

I am satisfied with who I am today, but to me it will be not enough when tomorrow arrives. So as Michelangelo said in his late years, “I’m still learning” — and I do it because I need this food for soul.