Welcome to My New Website!
March 9, 2020
Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues,
I’m writing to announce I have a new website – same address, new design!
www.MeganWilson.com
Thank you to Drake Manalo for the beautiful design /coding and for always being a great collaborator!
Also thank you to David Lawrence for designing and building my old website that was in use 2004 – 2019.
Four years ago I decided it was time to do a major upgrade / redesign of my old PHP-based website. I loved the site and for a long time it was easy to update and looked fairly timeless, until it wasn’t and didn’t. Technology … always updating and outdating. In 2016 I stopped adding new content, except for the blog, which allowed me to share new works and projects but soon even that content became far and few between with the overall site looking and feeling very dated.
As anyone who has created a new website knows – and especially those of us who already have years of material and whose work is in large part conceptually-based and/or rooted in social practice or public engagement, requiring a lot of accompanying text – the process can be especially tedious and time-consuming. Hours upon hours upon hours of identifying and resizing images, rewriting text, editing etc.
I appreciated the opportunity it gave me to revisit over 20 years of life and work. In addition to the sheer labor, it was an emotional roller coaster; navigating through so many memories: old and new relationships; life pre-MS and post diagnosis, living with MS; the lives and deaths of friends and family, including both of my parents, adventures throughout the world, meeting and marrying my life partner … fragility and resilience in turns, over and over and over again.
Moving back and forth between gallery/museum-based and public-based work and identities, as well as private, personal space … lots of gymnastics. Walking along that balance beam, trying so hard to keep my chin up and move with grace, yet more often than not, missing the mark, and falling to the ground. Getting back up, and starting again. Life. The ongoing practice.
I feel very blessed to have so many amazing and supportive people in my life, including the many, many folks who I have collaborated with over the years - thank you! I/we couldn’t do this work without it being a collective effort. I deeply miss those who have passed and are no longer here physically, however, their inspirations and impact on who I am and the work I do, are always with me.
I look forward to using my new site to continue documenting and sharing my personal work, the collective/collaborative work I am honored to be a part of, and to showcasing the work of others in a dedicated space. I also look forward to having a space to write again outside of the social media world, and hopefully much more; at least that’s my intention.
Welcome!
