REARRANGEMENT

Sometimes I feel like I have soaked up all the creativity a space can give me. There’s none left and I become dull. When that happens, I feel the urge to rearrange the furniture. A total redo. I feel the changes happening in my brain during and after the movin’ and the shakin’. Everything feels new and different again. The optimism comes back. It’s an amazing feeling.

Sometimes, though, I get in such a rut that I can’t even get motivated to move the stuff out of the way so I can move the other stuff to where I want it to go. Paintings are all over the place. That’s my main problem. They can’t lean against each other. I’m out of space on the walls in my house. There’s nowhere to put them so that I can move the other things around. I end up getting frustrated and then I just walk away. Saving it for another day when I find myself full of energy. Tomorrow, right?

What I really need right now is a painting storage system. Yes, that would solve all my problems. A safe place to keep all my unsold pieces, pieces in progress, and blank canvases. Right now they are everywhere. I can’t stack them. I can’t store them. They are just on haphazard display, staring at me from every direction from almost every room of our house. No one walks in and thinks, oh wow, what great art you have on display. No. They think, wow, you have too much shit and totally gloss over the fact that super amazing art is here for the taking…for a price, of course.

If I had that storage system I could de-clutter and then be able to move and shift the big stuff. And THEN my creativity would come back and I’d feel amazing again. Since I don’t have the storage system - YET - I moved some monitors and desk stuff around for the time being. It buys me a little bit of creative juice which is probably going to be used up on this one blog post. But hey, we will take what we can get!