Well all, I am back to the blank canvas, today felt good working again. The museum asked me to keep working, thank god… so now I can create some new larger works. The space has effected my work in ways that are so simple and yet it has me wondering what will occur once the residency is over.
Basically I can get back from my work so I can see the whole work. Further just the ability to move around unhindered has me more relaxed, loose. As I was working I thought, “hey I take space for granted.” Some of our production can be totally affected by studio space, working space in final installations, and thus creative space. Space is often the last thought when working, one thinks I just have to make do with what is here. Its a financial factor of course.
A friend in Holland started a project recently that is a “gallery” but it moves, it adopts spaces and presents projects. Maybe its not too far to adapt that idea to form a global network that can share spaces for working. This space wont be mine much longer to trade. ; -)
Photo by Dordrechts Museum
2 responses so far ↓
loujoseph // February 12, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Michael-
Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from, though maybe not to the degree you’re at- that room looks amazing.. we have a 20 ft wall to work on, and we can get back from it about 20 or 30 feet… we put up that thick insullation material they had on the walls at IU, to be able to tack up large paintings or tons of small drawings, rearranging them, etc, is a great thing, i’m really going to miss it when we’re done with the studio…
ps. what a brooding photo! what dark, sinister images are going to end up on dem canvases?
mkwick // February 14, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Ha… well I’ll add a new entry. I stopped posting the different stages on my site now that the projects moving. On. The curator said a new painter is going to be working on the other side of the museum so I wont be totally lonely.
Yeah I imagine now that you are moving onto a transient phase you will miss the space, maybe we can find you some over here.
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