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FAREWELL 2025, GREETINGS 2026
Happy New Year! As 2025 slips from memory, I emerge in a new dawn of hope in 2026. A light at the end of the tunnel, the will to live and carry on with purpose. Confronted with the fragility of life, I am once again being reminded that “Time is luck”. This past year has been an adventure. Punctual highs and lows, a much needed reality check, a slain ego.
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Over the past month I’ve been working on rebranding my personal and business websites. Everything from designing alternate logos to overhauling entire website layouts. I’m constantly thinking of improving every little detail. Getting caught up in the little things, I end up in this creative paralysis. I have to take a step back and breathe.
Recently I’ve approached my process a little differently. More or less, I’m embracing the idea of failing as quickly as possible. Putting in the practice reps of dumping everything in my brain and writing that terrible first draft. Applying that philosophy to other areas besides writing, it seems to be going well.
With these fresh updates on my websites, I hope to rock with these layouts and designs for a while. Nonetheless it’s a never ending work in progress. Constant tweaks and tinkering, always trying new things out. It’s a nice creative outlet and I’m learning so much about web design. With that being said, I’m going to be more active on this blog and try to share more with the world.
When I started this blog initially, it was a way for me to reset as a creative. A way for me to reflect on how much I grew as an artist and as a human. Returning to my old point and shoot camera that I had when I was in high school really put everything in perspective for me. It was both reliving nostalgia and discovering something new. Nostalgia can become a trap if you submit to it, like a mirage in a desert. At the beginning it fills some sort of void in you, disguises itself as warmth. As time goes on, you long for this melancholy feeling, a brief moment in a world that simply doesn’t exist anymore. It’s a chain holding you back from your true potential. I’m not advocating to erase memories, just don’t get lost in them, it’s what makes us human, gives our soul a purpose.
In this new year, I want to attack it head on and achieve as many goals as possible. One’s I have been putting off for far too long. I’m tired of waiting for the perfect moment, that perfect moment doesn’t exist. Being 28 years old now, I have different priorities and visions of my future. I’m committed to improving a little bit every day, whether that be writing in a journal, reading a book, learning a new skill, researching a topic, eating healthier/working out, etc. Constantly finding ways to nourish my body, mind, and soul. A balancing act of pure delusion and discipline. I’m in the pursuit of greatness, I want to achieve all those promises I made to myself and others.
In addition to personal growth and evolution, I want to upload and share my work more this year. In the past, I’ve let myself become a perfectionist and it inhibits me. I end up not posting anything at all. So in this new year, I’m committed to obsessively sharing my work. Even the projects that are complete failures and never see the light of day. It’s still worthy of documenting that attempt. Although some people may not see it like that, the process in which artists create is as unique as the final product.
Between this website and Sculpting in Time, they will both act as a mothership in a sense, a central hub. Meaning everything I do as an artist will originate here. I won’t be getting rid of my social media profiles, but rather use them differently. Think of a spider web catching a fly or a billboard on the side of the road. Social media, for me, will become merely advertising for my personal website and my production company. A highlight reel revealing just enough. All roads will lead back here, giving you access to full blog posts, more photos, behind the scenes look into projects, and much more.
As A.I. increasingly becomes more intertwined in all of our daily lives, we slowly lose our own ability to think for ourselves. We sacrifice critical thinking for efficiency. Don’t get me wrong, the advancement in technology and adopting A.I. on a consumer lever has been mind blowing to witness. But we can not forget that this is still a tool and should be treated as such. We don’t need it to replace our own thinking, we have our own antennas gathering cosmic wisdom. Generative A.I. for the most part is a net negative. It poses a danger to our planet and what we value as art. The amount of energy needed to keep up with the demand of generative A.I. slop is enough to turn me off from the whole idea. I’d like to think as humans we should value the planet over creating memes in the style of Studio Ghibli.
Let me tell you though, creating and tracking a mask in video editing software has never been easier with A.I. tools. It saves time and allows you to take more creative liberties, a net positive, but you can’t control how the vast majority will use it. Unfortunately, I understand it must get worse before it gets better. Oddly enough with all the doom and gloom, I have an overwhelming sense of hope for humanity. I’m already seeing push back against A.I. and how their models are unethically trained. Everyone on this planet is being unwillingly flung into a science fiction dystopia no one asked for. It’s definitely one of those be careful what you wish for situations. I like new tech as much as anyone, but at what costs? It feels like skynet is about to take over and enslave humanity. We'll be bowing down to a digital Jesus with our hands and feet bound by ethernet cables.
That’s why I believe we need to bring humanity back to the real. I want to do my part and put out what I want to see in the world. Social media is becoming this sad reality of influencers just selling products or following trends to go viral. It’s a system that punishes artists that are just trying to share their work. Why not abandon content built to sell and simply return to creating art purely for the joy of creating it. I get so moved by a film or a song when the artist bares it all and you feel that passion just ooze out. It’s infectious and I can’t help but feed off that energy. Don’t get me wrong, I know people need to pay the bills, but there’s got to be another way.
I try to envision myself when I was I teenager being curious about art and what would attract my attention in this contemporary world? As bitter as I am towards social media, I still use it. I’ve come across wonderful artists that I wouldn’t have otherwise. There are some good redeemable qualities with social media, but again it’s who controls it.
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Creating an algorithm trying to understand the user and predict what the user wants to see is utterly abysmal. It creates a mob of soulless people trying to gain the system. Their content suffers, the priority is no longer on creating something that can be considered timeless or even regarded as art. You get an epidemic of entrepreneurs selling courses on how to get rich quick. I don’t mean to sound above it all or pretentious, but I think there is something to be said about the “content” that is being pushed by the algorithm. It opens a whole can of worms, beginning a conversation of what is deemed “GOOD” art. I’ll save that for a future post, I do have a lot to say on the current state of mainstream media.
Return to form, return to the real. My film production company Sculpting in Time aims to achieve that through the power of cinema. On the creative pursuit of truth, beauty, and light. I want to inspire others with hope. Telling authentic stories and exploring the depths of humanity's greatest questions. A collaboration between the auteur and the audience. A gift to the universe.
In addition to film, I have other creative interests and mediums I want to explore. With Sculpting in Time, I want to create an ecosystem that allows for experimentation and exploring the unknown.
It all starts with the SEED (ARTIST). The SEED needs a system in place to grow. To evolve and reach for something greater than himself. Sculpting in Time has a foundation, roots, pillars if you will, that all function as one ecosystem.
As an ever-evolving production company, Sculpting in Time, is first and foremost dedicated to film production. Covering everything from pre-production, production, and post-production. I want to create films that I find meaningful and share them with the world. In 2026 I have plans for shooting short films, writing a script for a feature, and collaborating with other artists visually.
As a filmmaker, I also dabble in music, graphic design, 3D-modeling, and architecture. It all goes hand in hand and aids one another in creative expression. I’ve been playing guitar most of my life and music is a big part of it just as much as film is. With my numerous passions and curiosities I needed a space to explore them. So I created these three divisions to do just that and showcase things I’m working on other than film. The origins of the ecosystem begin here.
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This space will include any and all original music recordings by me and any other artist/band associated with Sculpting in Time.
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This space will include merchandise like clothing, prints, physical releases, etc.
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This space is a playground to freely experiment and explore alternative mediums. An incubator of ideas.
2026 is going to be an exciting year to say the least. I hope to continue to grow as a human and improve in all areas of my life. I can’t wait to share what I have in store for the world. If you made it this far, I want to thank you for sticking around and reading what’s on my mind. I felt I needed to touch base and give an update on everything. Lot’s of positive changes and things set in motion currently. Stay on the look out for future updates. My ambition has no limits, I will continue to be a student of life and stay disciplined in my pursuit of greatness.
