Having worked as a marketing specialist and office creative for a financial services firm for fifteen years, and as a photographer for even longer, I figured that the logical alternative after being laid off, unable to sit at a desk for 40 hours a week, would be a combination of photography and design. But as […]
Author: eyecreate
AGEISM, PART I: WHERE IT STARTED
We should probably begin where it started. As a late-fifty-something at the beginning of the pandemic, I was working for a financial services firm. As might be expected of a firm in that industry, the political environment was very conservative. With the owners of the firm from the Deep South, it was also a profoundly […]
Why I Ditched The Old Brand
When I was laid off from a financial company as the pandemic was winding down, I was left at an age when I was too young to retire but too old for people to take me seriously. So, I created a brand that would promote some of the marketable skills that I had developed in […]
Haters Gonna Hate
I have been creative since I was little when, at the age of three, I decided to paint my tricycle with house paint. My creativity continued in different ways since then. And being creative has become like breathing. I would die without it. But, as I age, my body becomes less patient with sitting or […]
Welcome!
Time for a new chapter in creativity. This week, I made the decision to jump off of Meta socials after finding Bluesky. Bluesky is not Instagram, but that’s okay. I’m looking forward to the change and the challenge of finding a new way to express myself. As a creative, I appreciated the ability to create […]