8 September 2025
Another bit from studio conversation today—on specificity. I personally feel like holding my references looser is making my work ring truer, but Edith's point that one should be careful to not lose specificity when allowing fragmentation to happen is a good one. I think honing in on specific source material that holds a uniquely singular presence is vital to the work—but for me personally I think I have begun to cultivate an absolute trust that my instinctive choices, even during research, are doing some of that filtering toward specificity for me. Even grabbing screenshots from the home movies I mentioned in my last post—the act of doing so was impulsive, unthinking, acted on from a hazy peripheral spark, which feels important to trust.