The Mess of a Creative Space
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Artists, like humans, contain multitudes and when it comes to the spaces we create in, they all look different. If we do find ourselves on the messier side, we also know that there’s a difference between a mess you love, that inspires, and keeps the connections flowing, and a mess that blocks, hinders, and holds you back. A fun mess and a depressing garbage mess are two very different things. Mess can also be cyclical—certain projects create more mess than others, and sometimes things just get out of control and you know eventually you’ll reel it back in again.
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Loss of control and perspective is the natural price you will pay for being creative and productive. The trick is not how to prevent this happening, but how to shorten the time you stay in an unsettled state.
Watson compares her process in both life and work with dadaist experiments “where you take an image, cut it up, throw it on the floor and then make something of the chaos that has landed. There’s a system to it, but it allows for confusion and failure and all this other stuff to happen.” She and I grapple together to understand the nature of what t
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