If you know me: hello.
If you don’t, I’m gob-smacked that you found me at all but: welcome.
Who me?
I’m a sculptor. On my second life (or is it third, perhaps?).
Where?
A little cottage, in the middle of nowhere, at the end of the line, on the edge of the world. In Penwith, at the tip of Cornwall’s toe.
What is zoic?
This is now the seventh incarnation of my blog … I think. Every year or so I get frustrated, scrap it and start over. It’s been various sorts of rants, about politics and the world, about art and the art world. It’s been a diary about escaping from the nightmare of metropolitan civilisation to the nightmares of cow shit, wild storms and arrested social development.
Now? I’m not sure and I think that’s alright: a blind belief in a kind of emergent organic evolution is all the plan I have.
For the moment it means I can keep in touch with family and friends, who are almost all a long way away. It’s supposed to mean that I can keep track of, and keep people updated about, my work. It provides me with a diary of what I did, where and when and it has already become a supplementary sketchbook.
I’ve had the chance, since we got broadband, to look wide and deep into the abyss of the blogosphere (yurgh) and I’m amazed at the sheer amount of stuff that people find the time to put up, when they’re actually working at what look like proper jobs, and a lot of it is genuinely useful and interesting.
I’m interested in too many things and feel pretty much unqualified to say anything interesting about any of them. And my life itself isn’t very interesting at all – I really just work in the studio until I can’t stand up anymore and then drink so much that I couldn’t even if I could.
When one looks at the photoblogs out there, one crumbles too – so many people are so skilled, so careful, so good at looking – this is not a photoblog. They’re just pictures. Beauty, impact or insight, I leave to them.
OK, so much for getting my excuses in first.
I’m sure I’ll want to rant again, and link out to amazing thing’s I’ve stumbled across on the web (in fact, I’ve already felt the need to add comments to some of the pictures) so things will probably change a bit.
I am planning to post more about my work – pictures and words – but it’s taken me six weeks just to write this so you’ll have to wait a bit.
In the meantime: enjoy.
Feel free to comment, link and come back often.
Aaron
aaron@zoic.org.uk