Changes leads to progress

My last post on the blog was several weeks ago. This wasn’t intentional but I was in the midst of some changes. I moved to a new place and was in the middle of getting everything moved, set up, arranged, and organized. This was one of the changes that was planned months ago when we (my wife and I) started a new journey. The journey included moving out of our former home, putting much of our belongings into storage, and traveling for several months. The plan included returning for the holidays but what we found was we love to travel but we also missed having a home base where we could return from our travels and have our own stuff. 

During our stay with family during the holidays we began shopping for a new place to live permanently.  During the first part of December, we found a place, however, it was not going to be ready until January 5, 2024. On the 14th of January, 2024 we got all our belongings moved into the new house which is in an area more urban than we have ever lived. Now I have a room dedicated as a home office and photography room. 

Changes, such as those I have just described above are very stressful and exciting at the same time. At the same time, change leads to progress. While it may not appear like it at times to progress change needs to happen. We are witnessing changes in the creative world as well with the advancement of artificial intelligence and creating or developing art using artificial intelligence and computers. 

Many, unfortunately, see it as the death of human creativity. I see it as just another advancement. As we grow as an artist it makes sense, to me, that we allow artificial intelligence to do mundane time-intensive tasks while maintaining creative control over the artificial intelligence. Failing to do so will, eventually, cause us to lag behind others and lose our edge.