
Day 6. Eyes Closed. Mirror Self Portrait?
Day 6. In yesterday's portrait session, I mentioned exploring more of the non-physical aspects of this process. I first stared into the mirror until the physical world began to shift. I have bumped into 'mirror scrying' before, but it's not something I've explored properly. The first two are with my eyes closed after looking, and the last I maintained my blurring focus and did my best to draw the experience. This has been a very different experience to the others so far.

Day 5. Lay Down Double Look. Mirror Self Portrait
Day 5. I think I was a little harsh on these in retrospect, but I think expressing my immediate response is good. I didn't feel fulfilled from my first, so I decided to do another to see if that time of looking at myself would affect the second. I don't feel it did. I felt a lack of focus on the physical and non-physical. Lead me to the idea of testing doing these with my eyes closed.

Day 4. The Stand Still. Mirror Self Portrait
Day 4. I somehow once again made this an exercise in physical endurance. From that morning's breathing session, I became aware that my physical being is more than just my head.

Day 7. Exploring Loss of Focus With Candle Light and Mirror. Mirror Self Portrait
Day 7. This turned into a very strange experience. I stared into one eye in the mirror and watched myself and the world shift and move. I aimed to capture these movements without 'drawing' accuracy getting in the way. The result was a portrait that I do not aesthetically like, but the experience was a freeing one that later impacted the following portraits.

Day 3. Watermelon Pain. Mirror Self Portrait
Day 3. I originally intended to just use this watermelon as a prop. The previous night I had seen a portrait of someone eating. I think those two ideas collided in my brain. It made a portrait of physical endurance.

Day 2. The Portrait Side Eye. Mirror Self Portrait
Day 2. I wanted to explore a different position in this one. You can hear my thoughts immediately after completing the portrait. This felt similar to yesterday’s as I start to understand how to work within these.

Day 1. Mirror Self Portrait
Day 1. The full sped up one hour process and my thoughts on the first of these mirror self-portraits.

How Long Should I Sit on Music For?
This is the first time I've sat on an album for this long, maybe around 5 months. The music has been finished all this time, I have been working on the album movie, which now feels of equal weight as the music. What are my thoughts about waiting to release on reflection?

Why You Should Make a SoundCloud Account To Upload Your Finished Tracks Early
I see this as a mindset/attitude growth tool. You have to set them as public for the benefits. I think the main ones are -

How do I know when my work has enough elements?
When I first started I had a tendency to want to include everything. When things are new you want to play with and show off all your toys. Looking at it now, this might be a necessary part of learning.

The Benefits of Using Your Real Name As Your Artist Name
There’s something powerful about making art that enters the world as yourself. Once again, I found this through music. I think if I had begun making and releasing under an alias, I would never have connected with creation in a meaningful manner. I feel it’s a threshold I passed and can now manifest it in other mediums.

Trust your instincts — Introduction to my thoughts and lessons on the artistic creation process
Many of these thoughts and lessons have come through music, but after noting a few of them down it seems they are mostly about the general creation process and artist thought, rather than any specific medium.