keys!

ORIGINALLY POSTED: 01 November, 2006 at 10:54 PM

i am reminded that i often get what i want, but just as often i want what i get.
i picked up the keys to my new studio space tonight. right on track--one november two thousand and six. i can understand color, and thankfully mike based the order of door-opening in a color coded fashion. green, red, blue. green, red, blue.
you know how somtimes things too good to be true? well, this studio is a 30 second drive/2 block walk from my apartment. it has a spray booth--a room that is fully equipped with ventilation, heat, electricty,and running water, but most importantly a landlord that is a creative person, and the company surrounding the studio space is filled with a potter, a metalsmith, a woodworker and antique collectors.
the surrounding environment, in terms of a space to be creative in, is critical. it is fostering this environment for myself, and in the future [in terms of thinking about teaching] that i often think about.
there are a few red flags, i won't deny that. working with another artist--while mike is a very open and creative person, he also is a creative person, and creative people often see the world through their artistic filter. it is this working together, collaboration-of sorts, finding acceptable solutions while mainting my own vision and simultaneously remembering that people are always, always more important than things--any thing(s)--and especially my own artistic "babies" who i foster, and foster, and fondle, and rework, and rethink and redo.
i'm quite excited to move my things and am preparing for the possible let-down/anxiety that may fill me as i stare at my newly aquired blank canvas.