Digital BW, The Print

> The whole concept that artist work is pristinely clean studios was started by
> those not in the arts, or by the
> artists' middle class mothers who are embarrassed by the reality.  ;- )

I love that! I'm sort of both ;-)... so I have to get after my boys for
having messy rooms, but then ignore the questions raised when they cannot
find their air hockey table under my stuff ...

> Almost every story of artists and their studios shows what a complete mess
> their spaces are....Why it is so
> hard for non creative types to comprehend how artists can hold more than one
> thought in their head at a time

right brain/left brain...

> is beyond me.  The whole point of being an artist is seeing beyond one's
> personal reality.  Cleanliness does
> not connote artistic creativity....Probably just the opposite.

Absolutely, you make perfect sense Harvey...  again.  :-)

Carolyn