Welcome, You!

I guess you were in the middle of exploring this site when you stumbled upon this blog and wondered how, in the world, I managed to conjure the strange enthusiasm to build it. Don’t worry—I’m asking myself the same thing.

I can’t stop a war, nor can I discover a gas reserve to solve an oil crisis. So I thought I might as well make a website. A small thing, really, but long overdue. Perhaps this is my way of finally giving time to something I’ve always kept at a distance— the commitment of being a servant of art.

For the longest time, I resisted doing anything that felt too “big" because I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was too small for it. Too inexperienced. Too unsure to even try. It was easier for me to measure myself against other artists and come out diminished, thinking how their certitude exposes my lack of it.

But the longer I sat with that thought, the more I realized that hesitation is actually part of the process. You don’t outgrow it; you work alongside it.

So this website is my own safe space to confess that I’m still figuring things out, still learning how to make, how to show, how to stay. Simulacra literally emerged from this same understanding that what we create are not really perfect reflections of life, but attempts. Attempts that don't necessarily need to be complete, but attempts that are honest enough to exist.

So... here's my nth attempt. :)