Bye, Bye Website

  I’ve decided to takedown my website and it will be the first time without one in 18 years. There’s much I dislike about artists websites today but let me get the obvious out of the way; social media has killed off websites. Why? Mostly due to the new found laziness of having to search for someone and go through multiple pages instead of social medias Walmart effect that turns society into iZombies. To counter act this many artists websites look like a blank piece of paper, white with only a few photos. Why again? Today’s pathetic attention span.

  Besides the obvious, there are things that I don’t like that are considered “mandatory” such as a CV and a bio that reads like the intro to an action film. To me it’s a bullshit resume. I’m not applying for a job and do people actually purchase art because of someones exhibition history, articles or acquisitions by museums and corporations? 

  Things were fine up until 2015 when people became stuck in their self-made matrix. I would receive emails stating that I had too many photos on my website and it confusing and overwhelming to their under 35 year old brains. The data from my website showed that people were spending less and less time looking and that data proved age group who were on a mobile device. My initial response which was wrong was to scale down the amount of photos which turned out to be a mistake by the emails from the older crowd, the ones who were actually collecting my work. They wanted to see more photos. 

   All of this has led me to where I am right now, pissed off, disappointed and worn down. So down comes the website and for the foreseeable future I’ll be using just my blog.