a normal 2025
returning to basics, embracing entanglement, invite me to be your creative-in-residence
I’ve finally finished my year reflection. You can read it over on my website: https://spencer.place/posts/normal-2025
updates
Gather is officially out in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store! I finally caved to Apple and changed my donation model to use in-app purchases for them 🤦 Share with a friend! And if you enjoy it, please do leave a review.
New year new restock of the Fortune Webstones. I’m experimenting with molds for the pillows and finalizing the app to set them up. I’m also actively looking to stock with/in museum/design stores, so let me know if you have any suggestions or contacts you can hook me up with :)
nothing on my computer, a 24-hour live stream of my computer, debuted in December for DO NO-THING. It was really fun and interesting to work with my desktop as a medium for art without any website or coding work at all. It almost felt like I was cheating because it was so fun to poke at the interfaces given and try to make something interesting out of them. This is the kind of pure creative joy that I love when I find for the first time!
There’s many more exciting things in the works that I hope to share soon! Despite all the ups and downs and existential uncertainties, I feel so grateful for being able to do this work—my choosing of what is interesting, wacky, fun and important—with so much freedom. You, the person reading, sharing, and engaging with my thinking, are a huge part of how it’s all been possible, so thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Invite me to be your Creative-in-Residence: At the same time, I’ve actually been thinking that I have too much agency these days. When I have to context-switch between several things that all require high-level creative direction and strategic decision making, I can feel my brain tearing itself apart. So I’ve started to explore what it would look like to emulate a more seasonal working style, taking after Robin’s olive oil season and other historical seasonal work. To start, I’d like to spend one season (say 2-3 months of the year) working for / embedding in a studio or company doing work that simultaneously resonates with a lot of the motivations or ends of my work but in a way that is also very different from the way I work or what ends up being produced. Prime examples that I’d be interested in exploring this with are MSCHF, Bluesky, Olafur Eliasson’s studio, and the Internet Archive. How I’d integrate is flexible depending on the host, but I imagine it’d be somewhere between a very capable intern and a creative-in-residence: directly helping push forward existing projects while proposing and producing small collaborative artifacts. If you have leads for the examples I mentioned or other suggestions for potential hosts or ways to approach this successfully, let me know
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