I hear ya! I downsized a few yrs ago from a 800 sq ft studio to a 80 sq ft room in my house for my primary work. Desk, computer, printer, paper cutter, scanner, records, CDs, bookcase, shelf for cameras, drawers for lenses, stereo, Project table. Talk about crowded! ! i'm used to it now, but the biggest issue is when I jump from one process to another before have time to clean the first process up and stuff starts to dissapear in the layers of stuff I put on the horizontal surfaces, including the floor, and frustration mounts. So I force myself to clean my room once a week just so I can find shit that I need. I'm happy, though, for this. If I was given more space, I am certain I'd max that space out and be in same boat. It takes work, but it's working. I'm happy for that.
I thought I paired down my positions when I moved Wisconsin to California, but felt unsatisfied when I was unpacking what I thought were the essentials. I had appreciated fancy productions of books and magazines, but now yearn for trashy paperbacks and newsprint that I can throw out with no regrets.
Hey Lucy, I love reading your writing and thoughts - so much parallels between us. One such parallel - we are selling our bookshelf and probably a lot of the books too because of same reasons you just mentioned. Not because I prefer digital books (and have lots on Kindle and in epub format), but because we're running out of space (after getting two small kids). It's not ideal but yeah feels like we're going backwards in many ways.
You're so right, Lucy!
Physical is reality.
I used to have a multi-CD player, until it broke. I used to pick out some CDs by eye, arrange them by hand, then program a little concert.
Now my CDs are on a digital 'device', and remembering what is there, and selecting and sequencing them are all worked in my head.
Physical is sanity.
I hear ya! I downsized a few yrs ago from a 800 sq ft studio to a 80 sq ft room in my house for my primary work. Desk, computer, printer, paper cutter, scanner, records, CDs, bookcase, shelf for cameras, drawers for lenses, stereo, Project table. Talk about crowded! ! i'm used to it now, but the biggest issue is when I jump from one process to another before have time to clean the first process up and stuff starts to dissapear in the layers of stuff I put on the horizontal surfaces, including the floor, and frustration mounts. So I force myself to clean my room once a week just so I can find shit that I need. I'm happy, though, for this. If I was given more space, I am certain I'd max that space out and be in same boat. It takes work, but it's working. I'm happy for that.
I thought I paired down my positions when I moved Wisconsin to California, but felt unsatisfied when I was unpacking what I thought were the essentials. I had appreciated fancy productions of books and magazines, but now yearn for trashy paperbacks and newsprint that I can throw out with no regrets.
Hey Lucy, I love reading your writing and thoughts - so much parallels between us. One such parallel - we are selling our bookshelf and probably a lot of the books too because of same reasons you just mentioned. Not because I prefer digital books (and have lots on Kindle and in epub format), but because we're running out of space (after getting two small kids). It's not ideal but yeah feels like we're going backwards in many ways.