No matter how you spell it, or where the word came from, if you looked at my studio today you would think I was un-organized. The Leo in me is out today and frankly most days when it comes to my studio.

When I first set up this space after moving my office out of my home (only because I was forced to due to a house fire) I was tenaciously trying to keep it organized. I even bought shelves for all the boxes of bags and placed them neatly in the huge room. The reality hit me slowly (which is best because I think I would have been really upset otherwise) that the studio office space that I was so adamant about having clean was not going to happen. The nature of the space and of storing boxes and boxes of things is such that it can be organized, but never look organized or more desirably neat. It took me about a month of moving the desk here, moving the plants there, and setting up the work bench here, to realize that it was never going to look as I had hoped. The space simply warrants the artistic ‘thrown about’ sort of existence that is obvious when you walk in the door. I have come to love it, even though it took me a while.

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