Introduction to the Wandering Golems
Wandering Golems is starting with the intent of being ever-evolving, the project will follow my interestes and necessities. The main focus will be to explore my ideas and explain many of the things i abide by in the moment.
It's only fair to introduce myself first; my name is Key and in here you will find my jorney through Art, tech and life in general. Later in this post i'll go over my goals and how i want to structure this web-site, for now know that the main reason this exists is because i didn't find a reasonable platform to express myself, so i made my own.
Why the Golems?
In folklore golems are constructs, usually human-made, without intellect but with supernatural strenght. A Wandering Golem is not very different, it is the avatar of the human experience and knowledge accumulated through life and shares part of the intellect of its human.
These particular type of golems are characterized by an object present inside their hollow head, usually said object is a plant or an object that can represent life and emotions, like a lit candle. Emotions, experience and vitality are expressed through different stages and conditions of that one object.
The world were golems live is not known to us, but we can deduct that it will be parallel to our, since your golem will live similar experiences to yours. That being said i won't go further on the world building aspects, we will talk about it later on.
"Experiences, mistakes and knowledge are all part of the same sea i sail."
Aside from the artistic concept the golems serve a purpose:
This project doesn't want to be guru/learn-how-to-live junk but i could see how some ideas could give off that
vibe.
So i decided to use the golem stories to separate my identity and make use of the artistic value to represent a
360 degrees view of my experiences.
Goals and upcoming content :
We talked about the Why, lets go over the What and When of Wandering Golems.
As i said at the start, this project doesn't have a definitive end goal, neither has expectations, but it definetly has a purpose. The idea first started brewing in my head in late 2023 when i got back into drawing and arts. I've been drawing my whole life, from traditional to digital, from inking to coloring, and it has been a constant throughout my whole growth. Then suddenly i stopped drawing during a very hard period of my life. In my last year of university the will to draw came back, also thanks to the art friends that shared their creations with me, and i decided to open an Instagram account since i didn't have a better platform to store my art. And that was a horrible experience, starting from quality of the image and getting to how hard it is to share and get feedback from others. Concidentally that was the time i was starting to draw the golems, my ideas evolved a lot until i had a cohesive identity.
But that's not all there is behind Wandering Golems. Lately i've started having a stronger critical thinking and
that led to many changes in the way
i live.
That also changed and/or fortified many of my beliefs and made me what to share my thoughts,
from consumerism and its effects to the way i find fullfilment in life.
To conclude this introductory post i want to give a glance to what's coming in the near future :
Art and Tech articles will come out without fixed schedule since they depend on my research and work at that
moment, but i want to be consistent and release atleast one post a month.
I'm already working on some posts about the topics i mentioned before and i hope to release them soon.
As for the Gallery it will be updated with all the art i produce and use for my posts.
I hope this can help you understand what to expect from the page. Is it definitive? Not at all,
you'll have to stick around and see with me where this project will go.
Thanks for your time and see you in the next one.