Random memory which recently popped back to the front of my mind: Some years ago someone here was commenting like: "very nice pictures, let's see how much of (or how closely) this all reflects your actual lived reality".

I remember being quite taken aback by that comment at the time, since it implied that I'd be leading some fake Instagram lifestyle, which literally couldn't be further from the truth. But sorting through all the images of the past 5 years, it's undeniable how drastically my life has changed since leaving behind 23+ years in London and having become more able to live out my love and appreciation for nature & photography, which always have been my main inspirations, also for my computational work (in fact it was photography & darkroom experiments which got me into computational art). I made the most of it I could in London (e.g. by working for 8+ years mostly from a bench in Highgate Woods, working on large projects for clients all over the world). But a suburban woodland also is incomparable to living near an endlessly fascinating major mountain range with incredibly rich & varied culture and ancient history to draw from...

So with that, I hope the pictures I've been sharing here are (mostly) seen as what I intend them as: Shared moments of wild or abstract natural beauty, oftentimes inviting pondering the time & processes shaping these environments, questioning our own role/presence or (in)significance there... Curated yes, very much so, but staged, absolutely not!

Ps. I'll again look into changing this server into a multi-account setup and potentially setting up more topic oriented sub-accounts. I'm currently feeling there's maybe too much self-censoring going on because I don't want to spam people and I think the new setup might help those people only following me for some small subset of my niche interests (instead of causing them to unfollow me...)