During the past 8 years of participating on social media, I have been witness to numerous spontaneous projects and investigations as they unfolded; this involved watching as artists and photographers document portions of their lives and observations in candid, ritualistic and insightful ways…. Each artist has a different reason for making these images. As artists, their eyes are focused and their sensitivity to their surroundings honed to their curiosity and what interests them most. Each project is carried out in uniquely purposeful manner, some are more disciplined or ritualistic, while others are more spontaneous and event driven. Together they take the viewer on a trip through the repetition, spontaneity, adventures, the mundane, growth, loss, shape, form and humor of their lives and observations.

Through Arriola’s images of the counterculture scenes around him, Burke’s and Dorman’s intimate depictions of personal lives, Hanig’s and Hertzlieb’s recasting of everyday places and spaces, Koenen’s daily record of sunrises, and Mason’s snapshot portraits of anonymous strangers, windows into the artists’ aesthetic and conceptual processes are revealed.