2024 07 15

A photographic representation of what I feel like on vacation. Chicago, Illinois. June, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

I’m on vacation, living in the moment.

I’m on vacation, enjoying some lakeside burgers and beers.

I’m on vacation, taking in the scenery.

I’m on vacation, stressing about work calls over slow wifi and extreme weather back home and studio managing duties from afar and paying way too much attention to politics and the job I have to get back early for and all the work I’ll need to catch up on when I’m back home and the personal project I’m not doing because it fell on the same dates as the vacation.

I’m on vacation, like a loon high a treetop, looking down at all the things I’m supposed to be doing right now instead of relaxing and lowering my stress levels, which I am clearly failing at. I’m just not good at vacations.

-Clayton