These are the twelve pieces I put together for my AP Studio concentration, back in my senior year of High School. Looking back at these, they’re kind of embarrassing. But then, in ten years I’m sure a lot of the things I’m making today will seem embarrassing. I’m throwing these on here not because I think they’re representative of what I make now, but because I’m just really proud that they got made in the first place.

Growing up, I was always making stuff, but rarely finishing them. My brain always felt a little too fried to really pull something together that I could care about for the long term. I was apprehensive about taking on AP Studio back when I was 17, but I knew if I was gonna get what I wanted out of life, I’d have to prove to myself that I could do stuff like this. And once I got going, I was amazed at how it all just flowed out of me.

To me, this concentration is proof that when I really care about something, it happens. It’s proof that I’m alive and kickin.

The premise of the concentration was a pantheon of gods that would exist in a culture long after I’m dead, in a million years or so. Every two pieces are a pair, the first in digital and the second in physical media. The lines between media got more and more blurred as time went on. Every pair of sibling gods had pages and pages of lore, tapped out in the notes of my iPod Touch. All in all, its pretty cornball, and pretty cool.

Thanks for lookin.

n8, 2/28/2020