Today I am really looking forward to getting into my temporary studio. I’ve just spent most of the morning/afternoon annoyed and irritated. Annoyed with my husband trying chat to me, annoyed with my dogs following me around the house and barking at every car alarm in the city, annoyed with the phone ringing, the postman knocking on the door, with having to vaccum the front room and pick up tufts of dog hair, put the laundry away, etc… all things that usually distract me from doing art related things when I am home… I don’t really need to have a studio to create most of the things I make, but I think I’m realizing I might need one in order to simply have the space and time to focus on creating and thinking without any distractions. I’m only off work two days this week, and then only have between 9am and 3pm to do anything, so I NEED TO NOT BE ANNOYED.
There are two open calls that I want to put in proposals for, and I haven’t had time today to do anything other than a little bit of reading/research, an even then just barely. I should have gone to the cafe down the road, but they probably would have glared at me for buying an herbal tea and sitting there for 4 hours. In light of previous planned projects possibly/most likely falling through, I’m hoping I can still salvage some of the ideas and work on curating a group exhibition or some other kind of project… I just have to accept the fact that nothing is getting done today….
