Since 2010 my accomplishments have one by one disappeared from the digital archives of galleries, curators and wherever else they appeared. It feels like all that effort and dedication disappeared into thin air. I gave up a lot to build my career as an artist. Yet, in the end it only took a few years to be erased by eroding digital archives, by galleries and arts websites re-vamping their websites from scratch, for no really good reason, and in the process all of our amazing work was lost.
Not just mine.
A majority of the fabulous hopeful mid 1990's to early 2010s has already been wiped off the internet. So much work. How many of us are still knee-deep in debt from everything we dedicated? Am I bitter? Perhaps I am a little. I am just glad that I moved on, I made choices that have set me free from chasing after the elusive success and legacy building.
You can't build a legacy on the internet. Art .. I always thought it was so present and that somehow it would last. I would be in catalogues and I would be remembered. Memory. It was a big dream.
Here is a link to one of my last big art projects: LINK .
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