Studio Life

     I am always really interested to what other people's routines are when they go about their day. Like who do you see regularly, what do you walk by every day and look at, what is that woman sitting next to me on the T stressing about at work today? I'm stressing about my glaze kiln and how it looks! I know I am a creature of habit and I tend to do the same thing over and over and over. I don't really like to change what I do from day to day because for me its a comfort level and routine for me is comforting. I don't know about you and maybe that sounds a little crazy but that's me. I say that and at the same time I'm one of the most spontaneous people I know, anyway I just wanted to give you a little insight into my day when I'm at the studio:

     Typically I'm up and out the door by 8:30, taking the bus to the T and to the studio I am for the day. I tend to start off my day at the studio by dropping my bag off in my studio I then turn around and take a walk to Dunkin Donuts. I ALWAYS get a medium French Vanilla iced coffee with cream and sugar and an everything bagel toasted with plain cream cheese.

     I inhale my breakfast and I'm off and running in my studio getting my work done! People that are ceramic artists generally work in series, meaning if you want to make a platter you don't make just one you would make 5 or 6, I would anyway. because for me and the way that I work by the time I'm finished with the 6th platter the first one is ready for me to flip off the mold and I just work my way down the line. I'm always trying to think of new things to be working on in the studio because I'm an artist first off, and second I get bored easily. (I say that and in the first paragraph I hit home how I'm a creature of habit... haha) Like today I said to myself ok on Friday your glaze kiln was successful, now is the perfect time to experiment and try something new. So I did. I was at the MFA on Saturday and I saw the most beautiful tulipiere and I determined at that moment that I wanted to make one in the studio when I had my next chance, and so I started it today!

     This is the inspiration that I saw at the MFA, isn't it GORGEOUS?!?!?! Let's go back to what my day is like shall we, GREAT! By noon time I'm a fiend and starving like a banshee! So I can usually be seen frequenting the Mexican place directly across the street from the studio, the sub shop next to the Mexican place or down the street at the supermarket getting sushi. I generally eat for about an hour, and that includes a lot of talking with my friends at the studio. Believe me I am the king of procrastination at the studio. If I find a conversation that I find interesting or someone I haven't seen for a while for whatever reason not that I don't enjoy working in my studio because I love working in my studio but for whatever reason I love to talk! Get the hint?

     So after lunch back to my studio I go where I continue making and creating and experimenting. It's important from time to time to break out of your "Normal" and as an artist I believe it's even more important. By about 4:30 I'm ready for a nap. I have been known from time to time to take and nap in the scenic over look at the studio in the poang chairs from Ikea.

I don't generally like to take naps while I'm in the studio only because it plays with my sleep cycle, especially when I'm unemployed and don't really have to be in the studio at a certain hour. What the point of going to bed at 12, 1 or 2 when you can stay up and watch tv until 3, 4 or even 5am! That's crazy! I have been really good about it this off season and I have kept myself on a regiment of waking up around 8 so that's great from me. Typically I like to stay at the studio till between 5:30 and 6. I get a full days work done and I have a lot of work to prove it. I hope you liked seeing what generally goes on during my day at the studio, and I want to hear about what goes on in your life through out the day as well!