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Lost media, found acceptance
8 months ago
If you create anything, digitally or not, it is pretty much inevitable that something will be lost - either by complete accident out of your control, or by an act of deliberate malice from yourself or someone else. Maybe you delete something because you think it's old, cringe, bad, or whatever else; or maybe you delete it because there's people involved that you do not want in your life anymore.
Either way, there will be gaps in the folder, holes in the puzzle, something is missing with no way to recover it.
I am making this journal to give some further context to my gallery - I don't have all the art I have made over the past years, and I'm not on a quest to find all of it either. Whilst most of my larger commissions I have managed to keep track of, I've lost a few things over the years, and I have also deliberately destroyed a few pieces, for reasons I will not specify. And I am fine with this state of affairs - at some point, you have to accept that you aren't in control of everything; it sure beats worrying over self-defined problems that cannot be resolved.
Two of the commissions which I have completely lost were continuations of the Bayeux Tapestry series that I was going to post soon (if I still had them). The reason for their disappearance is fully known to me, and it is as mundane as it was preventable - I had made them on a different computer, which was a very bad and barely working clunker that could run FireAlpaca and not much else. It was wiped a few years back, and I didn't care to transfer the pieces anywhere else; after all, they were posted on twitter - surely nothing would happen to them there!
Anyway, they're gone - I do recall roughly what they were, as I have notes of who they were for - one for a Laszy Cat (don't remember what was in it though, some kinda gray cat) and one for a Shelby with an orange feline archer. Both of these people seem to have disappeared off the face of the web, at least in their furry form.
I will likely find out that I have lost a few other artworks, but I'm leaving myself that surprise for a later date. I think the lost media craze, while fun, should also teach people to accept that things will sometimes just stay missing, and it's okay to let go, or at least take a break.
Enjoy your time, and remember to keep memories.
Either way, there will be gaps in the folder, holes in the puzzle, something is missing with no way to recover it.
I am making this journal to give some further context to my gallery - I don't have all the art I have made over the past years, and I'm not on a quest to find all of it either. Whilst most of my larger commissions I have managed to keep track of, I've lost a few things over the years, and I have also deliberately destroyed a few pieces, for reasons I will not specify. And I am fine with this state of affairs - at some point, you have to accept that you aren't in control of everything; it sure beats worrying over self-defined problems that cannot be resolved.
Two of the commissions which I have completely lost were continuations of the Bayeux Tapestry series that I was going to post soon (if I still had them). The reason for their disappearance is fully known to me, and it is as mundane as it was preventable - I had made them on a different computer, which was a very bad and barely working clunker that could run FireAlpaca and not much else. It was wiped a few years back, and I didn't care to transfer the pieces anywhere else; after all, they were posted on twitter - surely nothing would happen to them there!
Anyway, they're gone - I do recall roughly what they were, as I have notes of who they were for - one for a Laszy Cat (don't remember what was in it though, some kinda gray cat) and one for a Shelby with an orange feline archer. Both of these people seem to have disappeared off the face of the web, at least in their furry form.
I will likely find out that I have lost a few other artworks, but I'm leaving myself that surprise for a later date. I think the lost media craze, while fun, should also teach people to accept that things will sometimes just stay missing, and it's okay to let go, or at least take a break.
Enjoy your time, and remember to keep memories.
