It is time for a change. The Liquid Roses hasn’t had a new blog post since September and little to no activity on social media from around the same time, but there are a few reasons for that. For one, college. My college photography degree has been where most of my time has gone recently (apart from my becoming-more-and-more-unhealthy consumptive relationship with social media and the Web–but I am trying to fight that as much as possible). Another reason is that the Liquid Roses took a backseat to developing a new website for my P.R. Ramer brand, the brand under which I intend to do most of my professional photography. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, I came to the realization after I created my P.R. Ramer brand that the Liquid Roses’s original role had been largely supplanted.

With new insight into branding and the realization that where I was going with my photography needed a new idea, the Liquid Roses just didn’t fit that vision and fell into disuse. Yet I did see a new purpose for it. Rather than be a collection of all of the kinds of photography and poetry that I create, the Liquid Roses could be a more focused and unique platform for my creative work.

It is with this consideration that I have decided on a new vision for the Liquid Roses. From here on, the Liquid Roses will focus on imagery and writing that is primarily of a surrealistic, experimental, or abstract nature. Rather than be the source of conventional photographs and writing, it will be a place to create the fantastic and dream-like or to dabble with the new, the arcane, or unusual. To a small extent I did post this kind of work on the Liquid Roses’s Instagram page as well as my personal Instagram page, but it was more spectacle than feature.

With this said, expect changes to the website. The old photographic portfolios, for one, have been removed to reflect the new direction. If you loved the images that were here, there is good news: you can still see them at the Wayback Machine at Archive.org. I specifically made sure to create snapshots of the portfolios for this reason. As for Instagram and Twitter, I will leave them as is and simply post new content as I go. I will not remove any posts. And as for this site’s blog, everything will remain intact. What is changing soon will be the gradual creation of new portfolios, new content posted to the blog and social media, and probably some other additional website changes as I go.

I hope you will continue to enjoy the art on this creative platform as much as I will enjoy creating for it.

Best wishes,

–Paul