Artist Move
Moving, AS AN ARTIST, is no picnic… we tend to hold onto things… stuff with potential… that could be transformed and used in an art piece. These things move with us. And art books… tres tres heavy.
Moving, AS AN ARTIST, is no picnic… we tend to hold onto things… stuff with potential… that could be transformed and used in an art piece. These things move with us. And art books… tres tres heavy.
On the bright side, you can eventually build a new house out of all the junk you’ve accumulated.
He, I actually don’t unpack my art supplies anymore… I bought plastic boxes that double for storage and moving… simpler that way… And my dad thank me every move…
The heaviest “paperwork” I’ve encountered is French technical journals – much worse than art books, which I agree are quite heavy.
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Other fields of life have their own odd luggage: I have, among other things, a fully functional HP5246L Frequency counter, with a nixie-tube readout and a 5452B frequency converter. If you know what that means, I offer my condolences to thee, oh brother/sister electronics-technician.
at least artists have a reason for holding all the stuff. your average packrat (like me, alas) just does it because shut up, that’s why.
I remember in high school, I volunteered to help move a bunch of strange and unusual science equipment from a house in Pacific Grove, to the electronics lab on campus. After the first load, I regretted my hasty decision to help out. Sure I was missing out on class, But my poor back took a beating. It took a couple of days before I could stand up straight
again. Some of those electronic devices weighed at least a hundred pounds.
The greater the imagination, the greater the pack rat.
I used to give computer support to the artist Chuck Connelly. (Our company’s owner was a huge patron and I ended up being part of his patronage.) Chuck lived in a rambling Victorian and I am in no way exaggerating when I say he had literally hundreds of paintings stacked everywhere – EVERYWHERE – in that house. And he worked on canvas as large as 6′ by 8′. His favorite was about 4′ by 6′. If he ever moved, you have to start in the foyer and sloooooowly work your way in. There was literally no room for more than one person in most rooms.
Yup! It’s even worse when you have to go through all of your art supplies and start tossing out the ones that have wasted away (dried up). You’re CERTAIN you can still use them to make a masterpiece. Y’know, someday.
I’ve moved many a time… and it’s a good time to get rid of stuff you don’t want to move again… but that means getting rid of things that have “Possibility.” I like the idea of plastic storage bins… You can build a good fort out of them for sure!
Heavy things, be they computers or French tech journals, make for sore helpers… Art books are TRES heavy! I love books. Canvases weigh nothing… but massive quantities make for many trips…
All I can say is LOTS of PIZZA and LOTS of BEER! … or spirits…whatever.