Organizing Clutter Art
In Creative Work Spaces

I suggest organizing clutter art, no matter what your creative space looks like. Your work studio has to function in support of the art you create there.

For me it means that my supplies have to be at hand and at the ready like my digital rose clipart plus non-digital supplies. In that way being an artist is like being a CSI (Crime Scene Investigator): the crime scene kit has to be cleaned, replenished and ready to collect evidence at a moment's notice.

Organizing clutter art in a creative work space is part arrangement - no matter the size of your studio, and part seeing and doing that drives creative people, myself included.

Artists as individuals acquire details or particulars as we move through our lives more than non-artists. Our brains then take all these particulars and shape them into a whole that reflects our synthesis of the particulars. Which can be open for any number of interpretations. And that ambiguity is a characteristic of great art.

The best advice I can offer about organizing clutter art in a creative work space is:

• Have storage for essentials. Store your essentials there. You can find an inexpensive taboret or rolling cart at a garage sale, or at one of the "big box warehouse stores".


• Be able to see your supplies without having to dump them all over your work space. This makes more of a mess and can wind up spoiling work.


• Mess is mess. It hinders creativity because your eye can not rest on one spot. This, in turn, engages the critic in your brain and actually inhibits your ability to synthesize the details or particulars that you are trying to turn into art.
  
  Internationally recognized Feng Shui expert Lillian Too states, "Excessive disarray in the office (creative work space), however, does cause confusion and therefore brings disharmony." Personally, I think of a "mess" as an obsessively, pointlessly horded confusing jumble. Find a writer's solution in manging creative work space.


• If you create art work that needs to dry you can find a really inexpensive drying rack at one of the bed and bath stores, a garage sale, or at a relative's house.


• Commit to setting aside a bit of time every day to work on your art. Maybe you only have seven minutes to start with: five minutes to work and two minutes to tidy up organizing clutter art. Just do it every day.
  
  Communicate your need to do your creative work every day with the people you live with. Ask them to respect the time you spend creating your art. Let them know that you will reciprocate. And that you will pick-up after yourself without being asked, nagged, or cajoled.
  
  In order to be at the ready to work in your creative space, that means the creative space has to be ready for you to do your work. So having it ready for you by tidying it up when you finish the current session is practical and feeds your muse.

By incorporating these few hints into your creative space, you'll have more time - and energy - left for fun and creativity.