The month of June is shooting by so fast it's scary, soon enough it'll be midway through the year and everything will start wrapping up. Following May, which was a really productive month for me, I've found June to be a bit difficult, if I'm perfectly honest. I'd like to blame it on the change of seasons, those cold nights in a house with no central heating. But I think possibly some days, weeks and months are just like that.
I've still been pottering away at several of my own projects and planning many more to come. One of the most exciting things that's in the works is a collaboration with one of my oldest and very best friends. I'm not going to delve into it too much just yet, but it's pretty exciting. I've never worked with anyone else on a creative project before, aside from small art assignments in school. So, this will be a great learning experience for both of us and a big step out of my comfort zone. I am definitely a self-confessed control freak and perfectionist, so it'll be interesting to start sharing a project with someone else.
The ball is well and truly rolling on my July exhibition with Ventana Creative Collective and Colombo Vineyard. I've been busy planning elements of this exhibition such as printing, media, framing and new business cards. It's all very exciting and very very expensive. I always seem to forget how much some of these things cost until I'm back in the thick of it again. I just need to remind myself that it's all worth it in the end and those small irritating expenses will be a big part of a hopefully successful show.
I always get nervous about a new exhibition, especially when it's a collection of photos I've never exhibited before. I start thinking, what if nobody likes them or wants to buy a print? Or worse, what if nobody even shows up? This anxious mindset is exhausting and sometimes I wish I could just turn it off and be excited instead. But I know that I'll be proud of myself once I get to opening night and see my new prints hanging on the walls of Colombo Vineyard. The exhibition, Through The Kitchen Window, opens on the 5th of July!
June has been another month full of creating, lots of photography, writing and design. It feels great to be writing on a regular basis again, even if nobody is reading it. It's just nice to feel like I've created something each day, a blog post or a small photo series. At the end of the day, it's all for me and my own creative goals, but it's always nice when people reach out and tell me they like what I'm creating too.
Something I've been putting a lot of my time and energy into is a very cool piece of writing for a very cool publication. I won't say too much right now, but it doesn't take a genius to work out what I'm referring to. It's been awesome giving myself a new writing challenge and stepping it up a notch from my usual Concrete Playground work, which I love, but it's not quite the same as having something physically published. I'll share more about this soon!
Overall, June has been productive. Some of the projects I'm working on are definitely slow burners, so it's more of a delayed gratification. But I'm excited to come out the other side and see the final products of some of these projects.
Bella 🌼
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