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Organizing Clutter
One Artist to Another

Organizing clutter in the work spaces of creative people like me and others with natural flair, imagination and unconventional ways of doing things reveals that we can be faced with organizational challenges more than other people.

Some artists get discovered here. Some I know use a taboret, rolling cart, or elaborate folding storage taboret with built-in easel.

Others still use bookcases or cubes similar in height and set to the sides of drawing or drafting tables.

And still others pile research around their computer consoles so it is within reach as they write, or write while creating mixed media collage art. Musicians may jot down notes to riffs as they practice and develop themes.

Need to protect quiet time in your creative work space? Here's a free door hanger template I designed for you to create your own custom art and message.

When artists visit other others studios - which could be small holding a sketch pad and collection of colored pastels, or a wireless laptop computer, or sprawling - we never apologize for how it looks. It's only when non-artists visit an artist's studio that an awkward apology spills out on occasion.

Blame variability. It's one of the chief determinants of evolution, and is greatest in structures that evolve fastest. In humans, it's the brain that is the "most variable and fastest evolving organ. Art is one expression of this variability."

And there-in lies the rub. Society ostracizes and marginalizes individuals whose behavior it judges to deviate from the norm. Semir Zeki, a visual neurobiologist, explores this in his book, SPLENDOURS AND MISERIES OF THE BRAIN: Love, Creativity, and the Quest for Human Happiness. "Art," he states, "renders the destructive, isolating, and individualizing effects of variability safe in its pages, canvasses, and scores.".

I suggest that no matter what your creative space looks like, warehousing supplies is simply arranging the essentials for artist and writers to function in support of the art you create there.

Artists, writers, musicians, playwrights all find ways to organize their creative work space.

Even JK Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, recounts the dark period after a short-lived marriage, jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain without being homeless.

She has stated that during this dark time she discovered that she had a "strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; and I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above rubies."

Failed she could not afford to heat the apartment or flat in which she lived.

In order to write and be warm, she set off to a local coffee shop where she wrote as often as possible.

Through her travails and relocations, she carted around cardboard boxes filled with the handwritten and typed stories that became the Harry Potter book series.

If creative work space is where we artists find ourselves, then organizing clutter is the toll we pay each to our muse.



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