TURNING THE WHEEL ( Climber's High )

The First Hill.

For the past 20 years starting in my high school days the hill to climb was all about technique. Ideas were flowing through my head and I was dreaming in movies but I needed to learn how to grab things from my imagination and bring them into the real world. It took years, and a few odd routes, art, animation, cg and vfx, music , and tons and tons of reading. Slowly but surely , it worked.

The Second Hill.

I'm now at a point in my skill development where I'm capable of creating. There are no more limits to what I can do in terms of reaching my initial target. Through trial and error eventually one learns how to learn. But this hill isn’t about the technical knowhow of creating stuff. This hill is all about building a life with it.

I spent a lot of time mulling over strategy, trying to figure out how to make a life picture like this work. I first summed it up in a phrase.

“I want to live a great long and healthy life, with true financial freedom, while traveling the world slowly, making films, learning languages and telling haunting stories heal people, while surrounded by the people that I care about the most.

The following step is both harder and easier than anything I’ve ever done.

I must be brutally honest, every day , for as long as I live.

I must be brutally honest, with myself, in my art, and in my interactions with everyone. I have to shed away the excess, and communicate the things that are at times a little too vulnerable. I have to embody the things that I love the most, and the things that I find to be the coolest , ultimate version of what I dream my art and my life could be.

In this process, I’ll gradually be able to connect with the specific type of people that can benefit from what I create as a transfer of energy. So, this segment of the journey is about clarifying it all and delivering this to you, wherever you’re reading this.

This arc is a process of consolidation. The first half ( craftsmanship ) is required to reach a point of immersion. This is where the observer no longer sees the pieces of the work, but simply experiences emotion unencumbered. The second half ( clear honesty ) is required to keep this process in tact over the long run and to further refine the impact of this communication.


So let's see what comes of it. I look forward to sharing more with you along this journey.


Summed up:

The technical fades away to create immersion, and the fuel that keeps the fire burning is honesty.