Oliver Hardy
This is a photo of my dining room table in a mid-creative-frenzy. I create art like I cook, every single pot must be used and piled around the kitchen before I'm finished. Tim says I cook until somebody dies...
I have always wished I was neater in my creative moments. I often imagine that if I had my own little studio space complete with organizational bins and neat cubbyholes, I would by extension be neat and organized.
The older I get, the less I believe this.
There's is something about making a huge mess that works for me. The project bogs down when I stop to put away a tube of paint or organize my tools. So it's full steam ahead, tools flying, kilns firing, chaos.
I truly appreciate my family for tolerating having no dining room among other things. I do attempt to keep everything confined to this space, although some of it occasionally leaks into other areas of the house.
And, I do tend to straighten it up between projects...it helps me to at least start with things a little neater.
What about you? Do you like to work neat, or are you as messy as I am? Any secrets to being organized that you think might help someone as hopeless as me?
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'Tis a lovely mess, indeed, Leisa. I'm all for it, since that's where your masterpieces emerge from = )
ReplyDeleteI can make a world-class creative mess, myself, but have yet to produce the likes of your art -- it's not about the mess, apparently.
Keep doing what you're doing. It's a glorious thing.
You are an enabled, Susan : ) I've seen some of your creative endeavors, and I think you sell yourself short!
ReplyDeleteOops, that's enabler, my spell check helps me too much...
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