The Studio
The Place I read about quite fequently on these AN blogs; These are the blogs that come immediately to mind what with Elena and Franny just moving in to new ones and that, I thought about the relationship to where you work because of these Studio blogs:
Elena’s
Franny’s
Claire’s
and Kate’s
And then there is mine as well, I call my studio ‘the Cooler’ I never call it a studio. I might describe it as ‘the workshop’ never a studio……I read blogs by others and feel I might take my workshop for granted sometimes as I have almost nearly always had one somewhere.
I have never ever once sat there for leisure and read the paper, an artists brief, day dream out the window, read a book or play a game anything other than work.
The only thing I can think of leisure related is mending a bike and that might have been to do with tools.
I can think of about 9 previous workshops proper formal agreement ones and about 3 sort of bedroomy ones, that makes about 12 and then my current one which I have been in the longest and never looked out the window or read a book in any of them that I can remember! A totally work orientated place every time.
Now: The office is seperate and that may be the reason. I call my office ‘the study’! That’s where I write, research and read books and I dont move things around. The worshop is a place where I often move things around depending on whats happening in there. One is a thinking creative place, where you might wear slippers, the other a practical versatile place, where you might need to wear a hat, or even some kind of protective clothing. Two different places and I can not imagine them ever merging together.
The worst workshop I ever had was one that was too big and I had to buy myself out of a lease agreement to leave it. The best is the one I am in at the moment as it is so close, on the other side of that wall actually. The down side of it is I never see a sole from week to week. That’s why I call it ‘the cooler’. My family never even go in there……it can be a bit, er…bleak!
