This time of year always brings an urge to clean up my act, clean up my computer, clean up the way I use the internet. Whatever I decide tends not to last, but it does change me a little. I'm fumbling now, as I often am around the dark of the solstice, to find a little direction among my many many ideas, but putting them on paper or on keyboard usually accomplishes something. So: an incohesive intro, because something is often better than nothing.
Hello, welcome to Visceral Scenery. Usually I begin a blog with a larger goal in mind, but this time around, it's out of the pure motivation to share online differently than I have in a long time. I'm interested in long-ish-form writing, sharing more photos, and updating weekly or biweekly so that family and friends can see what I'm up to without such frequent social media use. I don't know if that will be how I end up using the blog, but that matters more later than now. I'm wishing for a cohesive archive of not only what I'm up to and what's on my mind, but a digital aesthetic object from this time in my life that's not wrapped up in the advertising found on other platforms.
It's been a goal of mine for about a year now to refine my focus and not do too much, something I finally feel I've succeeded at since I've been living in France, so I'm not sure how adding a blog fits into that. I do not want to create too much work for myself. But I've always loved blogging and wanted to re-carve something in a space I'd been familiar with in the past.
I will begin the blog, I suppose, with my 2022 Ins and Outs lists:
And, I used to do this years ago and see newsletters doing it now, so:
LATELY, I'VE BEEN...
making: a sky blue knit balaclava for my sister
reading: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
watching: nothing, as usual, but might watch Don't Look Up as pure entertainment soon. i am not invested in the Discourse.
listening to: MUNA's cover of Motivation by Normani, Jubilee by Japanese Breakfast, Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie, Floor by Tomberlin
eating: still not enough iron, apparently
enjoying: days off from work, snow, the way the sky looks when it is very very cold outside
