I shoot a lot of video and decided that I needed to work with a different editor than iMovie, which I’ve been using for years. That program can’t cleanly and successfully produce vertical videos, since it’s standardized on the horizontal aspect ratio, which doesn’t work for streaming & reels on social media. I downloaded CapCut and spent the day watching online tutorials. There are so many more features that I’ll probably never use since I’m not interested in doing bouncy TikTok style work. Quiet and serene is more my speed. I have a playlist on my YouTube Channel titled, Take a Minute Videos. These are, of course, one-minute videos. They offer to you the opportunity to calmly look closely at either something in nature or a painting up close. I find that we are living in a much more frantic world than I grew up in where I had many hours to spend looking at clouds floating like cotton candy, gently across the sky or the intricacies of the structure and texture of a leaf and how it differs from front to back. That slower time gave me an appreciation for minute details that I feel so many people no longer take the time observe in our hyped-up, fast-moving, frenetic culture. My videos offer an opportunity to just “Take a Minute” to slow down and relax.

I began this daily journal in February, 2026 as I prepared for my solo exhibition at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie, NY, from June 5 – September 15, 2026, my work for the group show at the Ceres Gallery in from June 23. to July 18, 2026, and my upcoming November 2026, solo exhibition in Chelsea, New York City