I always found that shadow boxes full of dead insects (like above) defeat their own purpose. While it might have some extremely rare specimens, they’re all dead, immobile, and lacking any thrill that might have been there when that bug was crawling along a tree trunk. I suppose it’s better for a rare bug to be preserved than consumed by a predator, smashed on a windshield, or eviscerated in the soothing blue light of the neighborhood bug zapper, but not by much.

The same holds true for a portfolio of your creative work. It preserves the ideas and concepts from your mind that have been executed as composition. But technically those compositions are no longer “alive” after they have been in the public domain for a while. Nevertheless, unlike a shadow box, the portfolio may just help me make a connection down the line that helps me reach my artistic dreams.

Thus, I give you: www.marksahm.com

Be sure to let me know what you think is my strongest section of the portfolio. I’m always trying to choose the one area within the five that I should invest 90% of my creative efforts. Until then, I will remain the sum of many creative pieces. Cheers.