Journal notes on what type of studio we each need to be ourselves and make art:

Know exactly what you need in your own studio in order to move into your new one on Cedar. The right organization and old boxes. The right paints and brushes etc. I may need help (DG) on that when the time comes.

I always must have stimulation and inspiration around me to create. Multiple layers—open art books, old cameras and clocks, stacks and stacks of books, strange curiosities, old polish poster art etc. I can’t create in sterile environments, or it is much harder at least for me.
Julio’s house was perfect for me, as it had so much visual stimulation, even the glass eyed furnace was theatrical.
My eyes need many distractions in order to focus on making art.
Old globes, pictures of whales from magazines, fashion costumes on racks, hats everywhere, up and down the walls.
I create best inside a theatrical setting. I’m sure I would paint best on an old theater stage.
Everyone needs different spaces to create in; and I often study the artist’s studio to see who they really were, and where their art was birthed.
Artist and their studios tell you how to read their art.
Then I also need multiple stations ready to go—a photography set up with good lighting and cameras ready; a painting station with canvases and aisles on the ready; often a place to create music if needed as well. And always old clocks and record players and theatrical props of all sorts.
I had a dream once of the “land of possibilities”. It was a part of heaven for artist and had piles of brooms, whale bones, lots of sorts of raw materials that one could choose from depending on the wind of the Spirit that day (if there are days in heaven). I loved that part of heaven. I think we recreate whatever part of heaven we occupy down here, in partial ways, but spaces that have a continuum with our forever homes above!
In another dream, my house had a bowling alley, and full of theater, slides going out the windows, fireman’s poles and lots of spiraling staircases! One could just roam like in a labyrinth from room to room. Only the long hallways connected them, and they were strewn with statues and old film poster art etc.
That is my type of kingdom.
I found an old local school they converted into a similar space for artist, with lots of interactive spaces throughout. I go there often to feel home!
Although I’d rather live in Europe, at least here in Texas I can build something closer to my forever studio above!
For that I am thankful. Life’s a rehearsal down here for our forever art studios.
Just as Juilio my mentor’s house much like where he now dwells. But I’m sure his one above is even larger and has more masks, trees inside, pieces of all types of glass from around the world etc.
He lived inside his metaphors, as I try to do.