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ORGANIZE THY SELF
Putting everything in it's place. You can call it spring cleaning, the annual studio purge. I have just finished remodeling our bathroom. A one month project gone four-ugh. My home office/studio turned into the utility room-ugh. There were days when I could barely walk through the space, climbing over paint cans, drop cloths, tools, and the other stuff that had accumulated over the years. I didn't even want to go in there let alone work. After the bathtub got out of the living room and the cloth washer got off the back porch, I finally got around to my space. I decided to redo my floor with the easy tiles from Home Depot. The wonderful thing about this was that I got to visit every inch and corner of my work place. I used the moto of only handling things once, meaning if you pick it up, put it where it belongs and that might be the trash. The questions of what is important, what will I still use, and where should it go were asked. Less is More (aka. Mr. Lessis More)!!! A clean and open space is essential for the creative spirit to stretch out and relax. Organize when you can cause when you are really cranking it's easy to trash the place, and you should!!! Now not all people like and need a clean place to be creative, like the famous photograph of Frances Bacon's painting studio. But I find too much mess adds clutter to my mind, a mirror of something I don't want to mirror.
So... homework. Set some time up to get into your creative space to just clean and organize. Handle things once. Throw a lot of things away. Ask, "do I really need this, am I really going to use it?" Then put it where it belongs, and when your are done, thank yourself, notice how the energy of your space has changed, make a date in your calendar to do it again (even regularly like every Sunday night)....and then make some great art!!!
Namaste, Mark