i have found online practice has been a different constant entry of intimacy with my self in art making. when i am 'making' with others online, i am very by myself in my environment and my quadrant visually. i am not recieving (nor giving) the information/cues/tactileness i thrive on in person, with and from another/others. with no shift of location as a way to decompress at the end of a moving or creation session, it feels demanding in a different way. still trying to make sense of it all. i dont know yet how 1.5 yrs of this will inform what will be of processes begun pre pandemic and also fresh initiatives. i do know my whole being is so much happier now when i am in person in studio, in creation. oh and why not wait til close proximity all that time? bc i crave the making and the collaborating - the connection, the breath, the sound, the laugh, the tear, the effort to understand, the new