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Exercise 1.3. Studio Reflections.

In this exercise we have to explore, examine and reflect on our relationship of our relationship to our work and/or studio space. In our learning log we must think about our own approach and feelings to action/inaction; focus/distraction, knowing/not knowing, being productive/unproductive in the studio.

Below is my reflection on my relationship with my workspace.
My workspace is separate from my living space. I have occupied a small guest house, so my family’s occasional guests have to spend their days and nights sharing space with my artistic mess. However, I try to bring some order and tidiness regularly. I wish I could spend more working time in my studio. Ideally, if I would reach at some point in my life, I could have a full working day inside, starting from 9 am and finishing around 6-7 pm. But this is a dream so far. Due to my life workload, I can’t spend that much time working as an artist. If I manage to spend 2 hours daily – I consider myself lucky. I fully understand that my artistic development is determined by the number of hours I spend being properly focused.
I recently reflected on why I have decided that I need to do my art, my art degree, and I need my studio. I realized that I ended up in created art because I lacked freedom in my life. I worked in a highly competitive environment, and I had too many legal, managerial and family duties commitments, which dramatically limited my personal freedom. My urge to create art was some kind of protest to that. I needed a space where no one could interfere, and I could be alone with my thoughts, which have a very different nature from everyday business and family routine’s thoughts. I can put it differently: the more I lived a daily life on this material plane, the more I felt a dramatic urge to be free from it. My studio is my shelter where I escape to get my transcendental experience.
Usually, I come to my working space with a raw idea to realize. Like everyone else, I pick up ideas and get inspired outside my studio, observing the world and the Life around me. However, they are all raw. I need my time in the studio to bring them from their basic condition to something more thoughtful, valuable and developed. I need the experimentation process, and the working space is designated just for that. Without experimenting and numerous trials, no art is created. I have learned with my OCA degree courses that the more I study, the more I appreciate the experiment and trials.

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