9/16

i don't think that it is easy for anyone to clean their studio...

to face unresolved work,
work you don't like,
work that evokes another time & place.

it's not easy to have to decide whether to go through stuff and edit
(read:time consuming & traumatic)
or to box it and store it
(read:space consuming & unresolved).

it's not easy to find a place for everything in a way that it is readily retrievable,
yes, i have now set up a 3rd computer, an old lap top, so that i can enter into my "organize" database as i put stuff away.
(remember "box o' cameras"?)

but add to this that i am a collector of all things
(read archivest on a good day, pack rat on a bad)
and when it comes to the pods and the feathers and the seaweed and the dried flowers...
well,
getting the dust off is a delicate task,
some of them break and crumble,
others have actually "gone to seed"
and all of them carry memory that is sometimes difficult to deal with.