I have resisted the idea of blogging. For me, it seems a presumptuous, bordering on egotistical, exercise in over-sharing. and I wish to be none of those things. Privacy and humility are underrated and unfortunately, grossly absent from our culture. But I've been told repeatedly by people I respect deeply that blogging can be an important, even transformative, step in my artistic journey. A way to connect. A way to explain. A way to share the creative process. So here it is, daunting as I expected, entry number one: the first small step.