eye wide shut

So, its been one year since my inaugural post here; I've no profound reflections to offer, but I did want to mark the occasion in some way. While my Eye hasn't exactly swelled to enormous size, I have made some friends (and no doubt some enemies) out there in the art blogosphere. And while I haven't been as prolific or as consistent or as with it as I would have liked, I'd like to think that I've written some informative, productive or at least entertaining material. I'd like to think as well, that I've put my my humble town (with its exaggerated artistic pretensions) as it were on the map. Thanks to all my readers for bearing with me. I hope to keep going for years to come, hopefully learning and growing and getting better.

I started this blog with the vague intention of becoming an "art writer". Although I studied studio art (at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts) for four years, I've long felt that my natural talents laid more in the realm of words. So, writing about the visual arts seemed like a obvious move, despite my lack of relevant credentials or experience. While I don't discount the import of blogging for its own sake, I'm glad that my writing here has lead to a semi-regular gig at the Ithaca Times (my local alt-weekly), as well as the opportunity to contribute occasionally to Boston's fine online magazine Big Red & Shiny. Thanks to both. Thanks as well to Karl Zipser and the other fine contributors at Art & Perception, a group blog to which I have contributed the infrequent post. Honestly, they're great; check them out if you haven't already.

To conclude this largely aimless post, I'd like to solicit some sort of feedback from my readers. I know that the proper way to do this to post constantly with timely, relevant things to say. All due respect to those out there capable of this. I beg your indulgence, all. But I'd love to know what's on all your minds.