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“THE LAST ACTION. FOR NOW.“

The last action. For now. I definitely felt some pressure since it was the last. I spent an entire week thinking about what to do instead of actually doing anything. In my case, too much pressure leads to inaction apparently. What I ended up doing was a creating a visual summary of my previous 10 actions.

We were asked to write a letter to our future selves and this my interpretation of that as a visual story. I remembered watching a documentary on ancient Egypt when I was younger and I was like, “Oh, hieroglyphs.” so I made “hieroglyphs” of my actions. I didn’t have stone but I did have a lino block. Close enough. Carved the symbols. Printed on some printer paper (pictured above) and the paper I made in one of actions (pictured below: didn’t work out so well). After I did the block print, I realized I should have carved the mirror image of certain symbols but too late.

I was definitely carving in the moments of my actions rather than any method or methodology. Things that clearly stood out in my memory. It’s so imperfect but so is my practice so this imperfection is actually quite perfect. I would explain each visual but I created this so it could be open to interpretation so dear reader, interpret it however you like.

As for any future actions, I have no clue but I will definitely want this process of reflection to be part of my practice as it has lead me to some unexpected routes. Thank you readers, if there are any, for being part of this journey. It’s been interesting.

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