2018 was a difficult year for a few reasons and although the adversity didn’t keep me from working on creative projects, it did thwart progress on my 4th book. So THE WINNING KIND has been pushed out until 2019.
My 2018 published writing pieces were Touch and This Is What It Feels Like.
I wrote thousands of words for stories that will appear in the book, and although no one has read this material, I spent the winter and spring knocking out the pages.
My photography exhibit ISLE OF PALMS: 72 HOURS was produced and I’m very happy with the pictures, and the writing that went with it. This was my first three-camera exhibit.
I finished twenty-one scale models and developed a 4-stage weathering technique with my model work in the summer. No doubt about it, those models were bright spots in 2018.
I made forty diorama photographs in 2018. These pictures were set on my kitchen table and finished in Photoshop. Ten different sets were used for these photographs–diorama bases that I’ve made with various materials. For these forty final pictures, 4,000 photos were taken to net 110 finalists, of which these forty were selected as the best.
2018’s output touched on four creative outlets:
Scenic photography in South Carolina was exhilarating.
Short fiction writing allowed me to express real and raw emotions that I would never have been able to write without adversity.
Scale model painting, building and detail work got my hands busy with files, drills, knives, metal picks, sandpaper, clay, paints, and many engineering challenges.
Diorama set design and photography allowed me to show how scale models exist in their natural settings.
To the visitors of this site, thank you for checking in. 2019 will bring new, wonderful things.
Ara Hagopian's The Literate Show 