👁Welcome Humans👁
A warm greeting to all,
Thank you so much for taking a cruise around my website. Sharing this space on the internet with you is nothing but a dream for me. I have been telling myself for years I needed to build an actual website that wasn’t just a portfolio on Wix. To assemble a space to place all my creative energy and share it properly with the public eye.
The name of the section of my website is called RosaFilmVault. This name was originally a page on Instagram I made to show special moments caught on my 35 mm film camera. Sometimes I would place a caption of writing with the photograph. Either a story that went with the picture or a fleet of emotions I wanted to just shout into the abyss of the internet. It became apparent to me that I would like to spend more of my time on a place I have created that has a non addictive set-up ( not like something with the unlimited scroll that sucks us all in and suddenly 5 mins becomes 1 hour) to post my content. So here we are, In this space that only exists in virtual reality on the internet. After I did some thinking, I decided RosaFilmVault could work well in a blog format.
My vision for this blog is to share images with you that I have captured with my camera. To explore with you things of life, thoughts, travel, arts, and culture. Ever since I finished college at the start of the Covid pandemic. I have begun to live a life on the move. Never staying in places too long, but always venturing somewhere new. Getting snippets, glimpses, of how people live in different parts of the world; as well watching how different places outside New York coped with the recent turn of events in human history. With this blog I look forward to sharing these things with you and generating conversation. The comments are open below and with discussion I feel we can cultivate a community of some sort. This place we are creating is a safe space of no judgement. We are all of the same species, and differing opinions/thoughts are ok. Many humans become divided and wouldn’t even sit at the same table as someone else who supported something that they didn’t support. In my past I have even been guilty of this, and during these days the world and nature has taught me to do otherwise; to be at peace with all around me. This digital realm will be a place of unity in a world of so many divisions.
The image I chose to share with you this week is obviously not a photograph, but a pixelated flower with an eye in the center. My good friend Savannah Camastro and I got tattoos of eyes we drew on eachothers backs. Ever since I have really been feeling the symbol of the eye. Especially leaving America, because I have been nothing but an observer the past year and a half. Learning new languages is a challenge. When I can't speak I just watch the world around me work. This piece is something I created digitally and I began recently exploring how to make images on a computer. I learned how to use digital software in college, but I only did it in class when I needed to and that was the extent. Typically I work hands-on with materials of all sorts and I have always been put off by trying to work digitally; I remained stubborn, clinging to physical/traditional methods. The world is evolving so quickly now with technology and now it has become a way of the future.
Humans create SO MUCH STUFF which wouldn’t necessarily be bad if it was done sustainably and also not done so wastefully. All of these lovely things we have created have accumulated on this planet and with the rise of population+ continuing unsustainable practices it will only kill the natural world, our home. I myself have watched piles of the works I’ve made build-up in my studio. It always crosses my mind these days, in the next 100-200 years what will become of all of this stuff? Sometimes I like to think of gravity disappearing on this planet, but only for all the things humans have created; nature’s great purge. I picture myself sitting and watching, clothes, pots, pans, plastic, furniture, cars, paper, just flying up into the sky. I think of how overwhelming it would be to watch every single household's materials dissipate into the blue sky. Would we be able to even see the sky in a place like New York as everything rose? I think of all the things I have accumulated in my 23 years of existence and how difficult it was to start the process 2 years ago of just letting go. I realized all this stuff made me feel very heavy, I felt like I couldn't move. Sometimes when I create so much physical work I feel good but then I want it to disappear, evaporate or be destroyed. The work I create is an extension of myself, so once I get it out of my system, I don't want it anymore. Above all though it does bring me joy to see people connect to the work I created and take it for their spaces. Then it's out of sight out of mind and I feel light again; but just because it’s out of my sight doesn’t mean it’s existence it’s over, it’s out there somewhere, taking up space on this planet. I don't know if digital work will ever give me the satisfaction of creating a real painting, but I decided to try to learn because maybe I could feel a little lighter. If I work back and forth between physical and digital mediums it could help me go forward in this day and age I think.
There is so much more rambling I could do but if you have anything to say or interest in anything I’ve talked about comment below send me an email I would love to discuss, bounce around Ideas. I look forward to us building this community together.
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