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Through this website I want to pose an alternative to maintaining digital spaces on the predatory mega-platforms of today (Facebook, Instagram, etc) and create something entirely personal that is a unique reflection of myself as a person and artist. The pressure to constantly produce and produce for these platforms as an artist is troubling, but does not have to be a reality. As a response to this capitalist model of overproduction demanded by these platforms that use algorithms to ensnare and subdue your attention span, I made this website from pure HTML and CSS code, building blocks of the web that have existed since its beginning. What interests me about websites and this space of art is the links, and inherent connection of the worldwide web. I’m also interested in exploring the artistic potential of websites as exhibition space. In my web pieces Linkworld and WordRiver, I work with the materiality of the website in order to produce art that is fully about webspace and its implications. What if instead of placing our art on websites where the content will be swallowed by more content we curated online spaces specifically for our art? What potential does this have for changing the way digital art is seen and interacted with? My works emerge as I flow through this era of information bombardment and manipulation, appearing as small comments on a reality that is so saturated it’s almost mundane. I’m also a big fan of the concept of slow art. To me, slow art is a kind of subtle active protest against the digital world of today. I’ve taken the concept of slow art and applied it to website creation. I’ve read a lot of articles that mention how slow art embraces technology and the digital age but not come across anything that explicitly discusses how we bring a slow intentional mindfulness to web design. I’m interested in the potential for slow art to bring this artful mindfulness into the digital, a realm overloaded with ads, bloatware, manipulative algorithms etc. In my paintings I explore composition and colour relationships. I’m interested in a type of intuitive design, where you construct your own visual set of rules based on experimentation and trial and error, honing the eye for it as opposed to using tools like rulers or tape to achieve a perfect composition. As abstract as my paintings are, there’s always a specific flow and direction try to achieve. As at odds with my web practice as they seem, painting is how I come to understand slow art more and more as my process involves a lot of being with the painting, and watching it if I am not sure where to go next, an ongoing conversation between what I perceive and what I create.