-: I like all of those different buckets of our work
for different reasons.
I think it's super, I'm a very relational person,
and so it's helpful to have different types
of creative outlets that allow me to relate
to people in different ways.
So with graphic design, it tends to be
that there's a very specific story
that someone needs to tell and you're helping them
to tell that story.
With photography, you're tending to come in
on an experience and help to document that story
for them and preserve that for them.
And with more illustration and painting-based work
that I do, I'm often taking my view of the world,
interpreting it, putting it into an image,
and then sharing that with the world
and dialoguing with people through it.
As someone who has a full-time job
and also does my own work, one of the biggest challenges
I have is just balancing it.
And fortunately, I'm really grateful
for the fact that I love all of the things that I do,
so they don't feel like a burden in any sense.
But it's still hard.
If I leave town for a week
and get like 10 different emails about a myriad
of different projects and have to figure out
where on my calendar they can really fit.
So I have like four different calendars
that I work off of, and depending on
when you request something, I have to check all of them
and make sure that I'm not overlapping anything.
So that's probably the biggest thing,
is scheduling the admin behind the work
is a lot more than one might expect,
especially if you're the one person doing that project.