The myth of the perfect, clean workspace

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

―

Kurt Vonnegut,

Mother Night

It's a false binary to say “artists are messy” or to assume that those with well-organized and cleaned studios somehow aren’t doing creative work. We all come to our creative practice in our own way. A societally-induced value judgement on “clean” vs. “messy” has however lodged itself deep within us.