to blog or not to blog?

Blogging isn’t as fashionable now as it was back in the 00’s. No one has time to read or to write in a considered way, apparently. Perhaps there was a good decade or more of oversharing too. But I was looking at my old blog textileseahorse and it seemed to me that it was a good way of recording life, snapshots of creative life and progress and how things have changed.

Back in 2014 I did a workshop where we encouraged to use colours we would usually avoid – to my 2024 surprise I nominated my now favourite colours of acid green, sour yellow and magenta. When did that happen?

I also take lots of photos – my Instagram feed is crammed with them. Photos of life, food, art, kids all pouring back for over a decade with no way of sorting them or finding a particular time (there may be, of course, but I have no idea).

There is my journal and I have lots of sketchbooks but they tend to be drawing focused or downloading whatever issue is oppressing me.

I want to remember unblogged special times like that June afternoon when we had a nap in the olive grove at Hadrian’s Villa (see? I had to get a screenshot from FB because the actual photos are buried somewhere in Dropbox)

So, perhaps a gentle return to blogging.