What I’m learning as I explore this digital creative space is a new container has emerged—a middle ground between fully published work and just a file or note sitting on a hard drive collecting dust.

The other part I find difficult is this reinterpretation of what a website actually is. Websites have long been used as a way to publish your own work for the world to see. But with the concept of this digital shed mirroring the physical one, it flips that entire thought on its head. My studio shed is first and foremost a place for me to spend time and engage with my creativity practices. In order for a digital creative space to do the same, I have to shift my mindset from a website being a place of publishing and rather being a place to inhabit, almost like an app or workspace. It’s a place I explore and own, but also has enough intentional design for me to want to invite others in.

I’m still figuring out what it means to interact with my creative work this way. What I’m most reminded is that this is an experiment → I’m building the container to discover what the practice is, not the other way around.