Some weeks don’t just pass; they shape you. This one was defined by effort, rhythm, and the quiet discipline required to complete meaningful creative work. The video, the photographs, and the DJ set each took time, care, and a precise kind of engagement. What emerged were three completed works that now stand on their own.
They weren’t rushed, and they weren’t decorative. These completed works are the result of focus, patience, and a need to close the circle. It was a week when things came together, where intentions became visible outcomes.
The Fasnacht Video: A City in Ritual
Three days of shooting. Dozens of hours of editing, color correction, and color grading. The Fasnacht video wasn’t built around spectacle. It was built around presence.
Every frame is grounded in observation. There is no commentary, no overlayed meaning, just light, sound, movement, and the city as it is. The edit became a meditative process. Color correction was about bringing out not just detail but also emotional resonance. As a completed work, this video holds a kind of stillness I couldn’t have predicted at the beginning.
Watch the Fasnacht video on my website
Stepping Back for Clarity: Three Photographs in Dialogue
On Saatchi Art, I’ve gathered three recent images into a collection titled “Stepping Back for Clarity”. All of them were made from above, where the distance of a drone shot allowed me to reframe familiar places with a different awareness.
- The Line of Passion
- A Brushstroke of Spring in Gold and Crimson
- The Blooming Turn
Each image is a way of pausing, of breathing, of reconnecting with what’s underneath the surface. There’s motion and structure, but also the space to feel something. The process of composing and editing these photos was deliberate. These completed works weren’t spontaneous. They were built through attention and choice.
View the full collection on Saatchi Art
Inner Signal: A Sonic Reflection
The DJ set “Inner Signal” was born out of a desire to make space for thought, stillness, and tension held gently. There’s no rush to fill the air. Instead, the mix develops slowly, inviting the listener into a kind of shared tranquillity.
There’s ambient. There’s space. There’s silence. The work wasn’t difficult in a technical sense, but it required time and intention to shape. Of the completed works I finished this week, this was perhaps the one that asked for the quietest kind of attention.
Listen to Inner Signal on my DJing page
Looking Back: What This Week Taught Me
It’s easy to underestimate the energy required to bring something to completion. Not just to start a creative idea, but to carry it throughacross moments of doubt, distraction, or physical fatigue. Each of these completed works didn’t just happen. They were built over days of presence, choice, and attention to rhythm.
The Fasnacht video required a kind of quiet commitment to watching without interfering. The photographs in “Stepping Back for Clarity” pushed me to work with precision, even in moments when intuition led the way. And “Inner Signal” reminded me that slowing down can be its own form of resistance. In very different ways, these projects were about holding a direction without rushing to the end.
There were moments when it would have been easier to pause or leave things unfinished, but I knew the only way forward was to complete them with the deserved care.
I’m not saying these are perfect works. What I’m saying is that they are complete. And in the act of completing them, I also sharpened something in myself.
Completion isn’t just about finishing. It’s about staying with something long enough to let it become what it needs to be. This week was shaped by the effort to do precisely that.
These completed works are more than outcomes. They’re records of a process: staying focused, being present, and letting the work mature without interruption. And in a week like this one, that kind of completion felt more essential than ever.
Thanks for reading.
Alan
