In terms of creativity it was somewhat a fallow year. Early in January, I completed the final version of Afterlives of a Newspaper. I had submitted information about it to Kolaj Magazine Collage Books who were kind enough publicize it in their weekly newsletter and on their Instagram feed. As a result, I got several purchase requests but unfortunately I could not fulfill them because of tariff spat between India and US which had caused India to suspend all postal communications between the two countries. Because of prohibitive cost of shipping, I am not mailing anything from India right now.
I responded to a few photography and collage calls for submission which were not successful. I wrote a couple of book reviews for All About Romance but did not want to do it regularly (that site will cease publication by the end of this month but its archives will be available). Last year was the first year since I retired that I did not participate in workshops or residencies or take any course. Perhaps, I have plateaued in wanting to learn anything new. Last year, I also injured the fingers on my left hand hefting my big DSLR camera photographing birds from the terrace. DSLR photography has been on hold since then.
The only thing I did consistently was responding to Are You Book Enough monthly theme-based challenges. I did complete eleven out of twelve challenges-not bad for a newbie! It was an interesting challenge and it did stretch my creative muscles. Check out my instagram posts at Indiragovi for the artist books I created for this challenge. The image at the top of this post is a tunnel book created in response to the theme SPACE.
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