As I’ve been looking at various art studios, it’s interesting how many studios quickly and readily reflect the artist’s most precious resource (short of supplies) and that is the resource of time.  Earlier I talked about the psychological impact of facing a wall when you are creating – and for many of us there are limited choices.  In this studio, which appears to be in a garage of some sort, facing a wall may be the only viable option.  

But if so, what is the artist looking at on that wall?  Where is the inspiration coming from?  And what I immediately see in this studio, as well as many others, is a clock.  If the clock is at the center point of your visual reference, you are constantly “under the clock” or “behind time” or “racing time”.  In this case, the artist is both an artist and a photographer and they mention in the bio of this photo that they “get out there two hours or so daily”.  The artist also mentions how art is a lot of fun – but how much fun can it be when the clock is your visual god?  The item you are meditating on.  Simple and small changes can make a huge difference in the artist’s quality of work and in how they feel about it.

I would recommend one of four small and quick studio fixes.  Install a cork board to act as a pin-up vision board for ideas and inspiration; install an image of the outdoors; install a mirror to reflect any available light in an otherwise dark space; or as a completely different shift, replace the clock with an inexpensive sound system – what is not readily available to the vision senses can be enhanced by engaging the auditory ones.   And then step two for this artist would be to invest in better lighting, invest in a better chair, and rid themselves of plastic bins.  A special thanks to Rustman for uploading this art studio photo.