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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 11, 2011 at 2:20pm

Hi Helen, the Joe Fig book is great and I look through it often (but wish he'd traded in a couple of questions on his questionnaire for a couple of others, do you?).  There's an artist's studio group on Flickr that has well over 5,000 images people have sent in of their studios from around the world.  Fascinating.  You know Dale's site well!  That Crisp quote is a beaut.  It's about her "garden" (which she used to tend but is now part of the New Zealand jungle) -- said she finally decided that gardening, like housework, "is not a rational exercise. I agree with Quentin Crisp 'After four years it gets no worse.'" She's in your corner of the world right now doing a workshop.

You are observant.  The pocket is from my husband's jeans, covered with paint.  I don't let him throw them out -- instead I cut them up and use the pockets in a variety of spots in the studio, for things apt to get lost otherwise (the glasses belong in there), like the chapstick and yes, the lighter.  No furtive smoking in this house!  It's all out in the open!  It's been down to 8 cigs a day for the past 9 years, where it will stay because I like it.  Yah, aren't those '40s carts necessary?  It's too bad mine is so piled with stuff that I can't actually use it as a rolling thing.  That's not dress tissue, though now you mention it it looks kind of like it.  It's paper from a big old roll -- probably some kind of office item in the '50s or '60s -- and the paper has a nice feel:  thinnish but doesn't fall apart.  I tend to crinkle it and then drop paint on it which flows around pleasingly and into the cracks.  Your page looks like a feast and I intend to have a good look at it.

 

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on July 11, 2011 at 5:35am

Nadine, the scale is one of about 947 things saved from my antiques-shop days.   At least it's one of the functional things; and it came in handy on Friday when sending off my first mail-arts (one to you!).

Your desk is wonderful, Theresa, and that it was your father's must make working there extra pleasurable and meaningful.  I'm glad you posted this photo.  Your son's picture is great, I'm getting a big kick out of it, and really very artistic (and witty, with that title).  And anyone who can make cubbyholes is ok in my book.  I'm addicted to them.  They're all over the place here.  Even in the cellar, because there's not space for many in my studio or our living space over it.  Yet.  There will be.  I'll make it.  Bones and skulls -- have you ever looked at Dale Copeland's assemblages?  She is drawn to them, collects them, and uses them regularly in her very imaginative work.

This IUOMA site is making it hard to find time to sleep because it's so interesting and the people here are compelling.  What an exhilarating complaint. 

Comment by Nadine Wendell-Mojica on July 11, 2011 at 5:02am

The scale is really tight too.

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