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As a follow up to my previous blog post about what happened to my website I wanted to write a bit about what has been happening to and with me. After a peak in creative activity in 2019 a few things happened which greatly affected my ability to be creative.

2019 was good!

If you have been following my work for a while, or if you’ve read any of my Year in Review blog posts you’ll have seen a steady increase in creative activity over the years. The peak of this was probably 2019. I felt very much at a high point in terms of creative activity and general enthusiasm for life. Highlights of this year include my solo exhibition at Czurles-Nelson Gallery in Buffalo, an Algorave performance at SXSW, the British Library and Corsica Studios, and being in conversation with the amazing Howie Lee at HKW in Berlin. 2020 also got off to a great start with badcirculation doing a performance at ICLC in Limerick and then I did a performance at Cafe Oto.

I started writing this blog post in the Summer of 2024. At the time I was on a game development course where we had a workshop on building a successful portfolio website. Many of us held our heads in shame as we looked at our horrible, barren, and outdated websites.

Shortly after this wake-up call I published a “back soon” blog post and hoped that I’d find the motivation to finally give my website some attention. Of course “back soon” turned out to be nearly two years. I’m now here on June 3rd 2026 returning to this half-written blog post which explained my absence but this time with an actually presentable website. So, let’s return to the original provocation of this blog post: What happened to my website and what can you expect going forward?

After nearly three years of having the domain registered, one year building a website for my course and then scrapping it and various vague attempts at coding a blogging and gallery CMS myself I decided finally to give the site a complete makeover and implement Wordpress and Gallery2. I think it looks rather good, though once I edit some of the CSS it’ll have a more personalised feel to it.