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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Notes on Studios from Pastel Pointers

"To have a sacred place is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room or a certain hour of the day or so, where you do not know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody or what they owe you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first, you may find nothing happens there. But, if you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.” (Joseph Campbell)

"The French term for studio is atelier. Besides referring to an artist’s place of study, atelier curiously can have the connotation of housing an alchemist or wizard. So besides being a place for meditation and prayer, the studio/atelier can be the place where you allow yourself to experiment, transform, and produce magic – Voila!"   ~ Richard McKinley

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