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The Mercurial Workplace | Jill Halliday | Artist | The Ten Collective

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When I was working in the Animation Industry, my workspace remained unchanged for years. I had a tilted drafting (light)table with a circular hole cut into it, where an animation disc was seated. There was an electric pencil sharpener, a drawer full of pencils,  a table to house a shelving unit which held paper, miscellaneous supplies, (including  a tape recorder for listening to the prerecorded voices of the actors, lol!), and piles of reference materials. A large bulletin board displayed the relevant character designs, storyboard pages, and other necessary visual or scheduling information needed for the Show in progress.

Oh. And a chair.


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However, the workplace for my personal art is ever-changing.  Over the years, I have set up shop in almost every room of my house.

Upstairs, downstairs, back upstairs, then returning downstairs, and then into a sunny little back room that was flooded with natural light, but was far too hot in the summer, so.... back upstairs I went!



I work in my car,  on my front porch, and outside in my wee yard!


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Presently, I am downstairs.... but .... for how long?

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One thing that does remain the same about my Studio space is that, no matter how hard I try, the room looks,  to the untrained eye, .... well, it looks, perhaps, a tad, shall we saaaaay, untidy?

I think it’s perfectly fine, thank you very much.

For now?