{opening} my studio at the treehouse

during any other week, i teach drama during the day and create visual art at night.

this week, however, is special.

this week is spring break.

my schedule is altered for the next seven days.

as a result of this shift, i have been in my studio all morning and am completely blissed out...

{treehouse studio: loft with a slanted window}

{my view: apple orchards + vineyards + hills + sky}

{my favorite mug: seattle artist orna}

i have daydreamed about photographing and sharing my studio for a long time, but my perfectionist kept getting in the way.

today i decided to move through that and just do it.

i am sending a big thank you to my friend beka at ginger*urchin for recently asking me to show this space. i needed the encouragement and i appreciate it.

although part of me is a flashy showboat, another part of me is a shy flower.

the dew drop inn is a place where i'm committed to sharing both of these experiences with you.

this quote from author may sarton (via sabrina ward harrison in spilling open) inspires me to do so:

how one lives as a private person

is intimately bound into the work.

at some point i believe

one has to stop holding back

for fear of alienating

some imaginary reader

or real relative

or friend,

and come out with personal truth.

if we are to understand the human condition,

and if we are to accept ourselves

in all the complexity, self-doubt,

extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy,

the slow freeing of the self

to its full capacity for action and creation

both as human being and as artist,

we have to know all we can about each other

and we have to be willing to go naked.