I have started a blog

And this is its introduction. 

I wanted to start this and have been postponing it for a while now, finally I’ve decided that something needs to be done and this is it, even if it is in such a laughable micro scale. A huge part of the joy I got from my obsessive work was the fact that for the first time in my life I felt part of a community, I felt like I was capable of making things happen, communicate and connect through honestly expressing myself.

Over time, with algorithm changes on Facebook and moving countries I felt like I lost the ability to reach people, both in a professional and personal level. For a few years now it feels like I’ve been existing in a bubble, a vacuum. I’ve abandoned Facebook because I don’t agree with almost everything it stands for, but I can’t get myself to delete the FB Page because it’s still a symbol of the trajectory of the work since it’s very humble beginnings in 2012. Instagram is a very poor substitute and TikTok gives me anxiety / existential nausea.

So, this is me, after years of being in a dark bubble trying to make sense of it and slowly realising that this feeling of being disconnected and rootless is painfully ubiquitous and not special to one silly individual, trying to connect to whoever you are if you’re reading this, because I miss you. And you might be thinking I don’t even know who you are [and how can I miss something I have never known - I think that’s an avenue of melancholia, no?] and that even if I do know you, the fact that we are not close might mean that this is not for you, but it is. I miss you. If this makes you feel uncomfortable go to the comment section and vent. Lets air stuff out, go comando on our feelings.

Whatever the level of connection you and I are comfortable with, that’s what we should strive for, the main thing here being making the effort to open doors that were senselessly closed. We might never go beyond the level of being acquaintances, pen pals, occasionally liking / commenting, having a one-time deep conversation followed by a life time of awkward silence acknowledgements of wishing each other well while knowing there is no material to build a bigger relationship and that’s ok too, but it could also lead to true friendship. It could go nowhere, it could go somewhere. Kind of like my career, ~nervous giggles all around~ the only thing I know is that I will regret a life time if I don’t even try.

This blog is an attempt to create a new place to share the trajectory of the work, but this time in a platform that belongs to us and not a shady third-party company that mines and sells data. I’ll also try to write the posts in a less succinct, cryptic and edited way than I do on Instagram. The posts will be a sort of a weekly diary about the work, myself and the world around us.

If you have any questions, ideas or feedback lay it on me.

Thank you for being here. See you next post.
All the best always.