The Mercurial Workplace | Jill Halliday | Artist | The Ten Collective
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.
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!
Presently, I am downstairs.... but .... for how long?
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?