“Think of my moodboard as a scrapbook filled with little pieces of me gathered over time. A peek inside my artist’s sketchbook and my writer’s journal. Creativity in the raw.” - AJ Schultz
As I emerged from my symptoms, there was still distance left to travel to reach “creative inspiration.” Creative inspiration announces itself as a roughly doodled cartoon light bulb over my head. There was not yet a bulb, but for the first time in a month, I wanted to have ideas.
Read MoreHow had COVID-19 impacted my artistic process and work? At the time of this interview, I was really struggling with that. Neither my camera nor my laptop seemed like the right conduits for creative expression. Technology had become an unwelcome middleman (much like Zoom, perhaps).
Read MoreInstead of saying I had “a possible case of coronavirus,” I called it “my experience." With so many people who are sicker than me, dying, losing loved ones… so many other people forced to put themselves in harm’s way… how could the same name capture it all?
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