I am surged. I have started to create. I have started a creation or a habit of creation. This is the first time that I have lived with someone and have attained the ability beyond my normality to create in the same space. I don't have money for a real studio of my own, nothing away from home. My studio is in my house. It's a bedroom. The size is small but very suitable. While growing up my bedroom was my studio. This room is the first place, since my childhood bedroom, that feels like home or my creative space.
There is something within an artist that requires a level of selfishness. An artist needs space to grow, expand, and express what they are trying to get out. There is an understanding of that precious space that can only be totally shared with another artist. The space that allows us to create is sacred.
Some artists have an ability to create anywhere, I've only met one. Expression between mental thought and physical vomit (no matter the medium) is held mostly with lock and key. There are artists, many, that may disagree with me. Maybe my perception of this is based on a female point of view, but I doubt it.
I feel as though most people, not just artists, take space for granted. Each person is creative within their own right. Sprawl out, but don't be greedy.
For those of you that may not understand this please don't try, but acception might be enough. Suffication can be a death.
you may not be creating a tangible product wherever you go, but there's something to say about the artist's ability (and tendency) to create ideas everywhere--no matter the physical space. i like to think about it this way: if we were stripped off all material access (and this includes space) we'd still be equipped with our most intimate artistic tools that reside within us (john keats would call this the soul, but it's open to all interpretations). and hence still be able to create, even in the most unlikely of places. but i must say, it is quite a privilege to have access to a studio. so i do get what you're saying, big time!
ReplyDeleteoh yay! my comment didn't have to get approved! haha. i just didnt expect to see it up instantly :)
ReplyDeleteI think I'm most complimented that you used John Keats as an example for this. Weather you knew it or not you should know that he is one of my favorite poets of all time. I'm just a cheesey romantic inside.
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