I do have the luxury of living in the Bay Area it is such temperate and beautiful place. My small work/live space is in the hills. Not a trendy place at all. My house is also my studio and I have huge garden with redwoods and tons of foliage. Which secludes me from the chaos of the city.
Hilarious Don's friends sister stopped by this morning to pick something up at our space and the place is disaster. In jest I said we are living in squalor. She scuffed it off and said ..."no problem it is the artist thing." You can tell an artist lives here.
For me this is one of the perks with being an artist. Your house/studio can be a mess. You can have paint all over your clothes and it is just an artist thing. There are some under tones there, but I love it! Creative folks get a leeway in society for being a little disheveled.
The image is above is the my tree shrine that I created on winter solstice for the majestic redwood that lives in the garden outside my place;
Daily Space:
(Every day in my morning tea ritual I gaze into the garden watching Griffen and Maya my cats bliss out in the morning sun. My other giant cat Paulo purrs beside me. I relish in leaving the door open to dissolve the separation of the interior and exterior. From nature and my self. The seclusion in my space gives me a safe place to create.) More on my space later.
The garden studio video in Lauren's post was dreamy! Hey I do live in a garden studio.
My grand vision is to live in a greenhouse studio over looking the cliffs of northern coast of California with no neighbors in site. When I need my social and cultural fix- I can just drive into the city.
ahh...I love the romantic notion of being an artist! Aesthetics abound...
Check out this amazing book on how ones "home" really defines ones "work"
Where Inspiration Lives: Writers, Artists, and Their Creative Places
