Organized Chaos

On any given day, if you walk into my office, you will find chaos, disaster, the biggest mess you’ve ever seen … call it what you want but creative people are almost always messy yet somehow always know where everything is. My chaos is very VERY well organized!

My husband walks into my office, and it goes like this every time:
R: “How the heck can you work here, I don’t even know what color your desk is?”
K: “What do you mean, it’s not thaaaaaaaaaaaat messy, plus I need everything out. What if I want a different color string, another shape of button, a piece of candy, a glass of water…. A creative girl has to be prepared… I can’t waste time running around getting stuff!”
R: “Ok, fine….but tell me, where’s your iPod, right now, right now?”
K: “Under the pile of cut string, that’s sitting on my agenda, by the right of my keyboard of my laptop”
BINK! There it is!
R: “Man you’re good!”

My desk at its cleanest!

I like, no I need, my creative space to be messy but I hate when the rest of the house is. I love having all of my art materials all over the place. I hate when everything is neat, then I search. Give me my mess and I know where everything is. I like shifting from one project to the next yet I don’t like that I never finish the project I am working on before starting the next. I would love to sometimes change the gears of my brain, maybe put it in slow motion for a change. I need to learn to focus.
… and perhaps kick the puppies out of my space, once in a while, or else I get this: :)

Mika, Clara & Tchix (current foster pup)