my princess castle: updates on daily life
Curating Your Desk as an Art Piece and Functional Interactive Workspace and Ideatank: a critical examination of transforming the front window space in 608 from the "Travel Agency" to the new "Tourism Beureau", a highly informative and organized location of entry and understanding.
I was inspired by the much-loved-past-residents, Billy and Jessie's website (oh man! It's so beautiful! must hurry to make my own website!), blog (which made me start my intense campaign to have elsewhere officially switch to tumblr because I am drooling over it), and specifically here their community project at Elsewhere, creating the Castle around a group of Resident Desks in the back of 608:
So, based on these beautiful fabric walls, I have been dreaming of worlds of fabric (I know I know... but a slightly DIFFERENT world of fabric than Elsewhere...). Fabric flower boxes, fabric shingles, fabric wood-stoves, fabric walls, fabric curtains, fabric tables, fabric dinner, fabric beds, fabric clouds, fabric mountains...
And suddenly I realized exactly what I needed to make my desk area more than just a corner!! I needed to think about it like a whole SPACE, and how better to contain a space than to create your own all encompassing walls!?! I was struggling with the idea that my desk should be a public area, open to people in the community so that I can be a liason and outreach person easily, it should be in the front window, even though that feels very vulnerable and open (not to mention green-house hot), it should be a place where people can come and chat, get info, become part of the community. I really liked all those ideas but I still didn't want to be in my zone! It was just a bunch of stuff in a corner! And so now, I present an all-encompassing situation which solves many problems:
Welcome to the Tourism Bureau (the princess castle)!
Process
Product:
And suddenly I realized exactly what I needed to make my desk area more than just a corner!! I needed to think about it like a whole SPACE, and how better to contain a space than to create your own all encompassing walls!?! I was struggling with the idea that my desk should be a public area, open to people in the community so that I can be a liason and outreach person easily, it should be in the front window, even though that feels very vulnerable and open (not to mention green-house hot), it should be a place where people can come and chat, get info, become part of the community. I really liked all those ideas but I still didn't want to be in my zone! It was just a bunch of stuff in a corner! And so now, I present an all-encompassing situation which solves many problems:
Welcome to the Tourism Bureau (the princess castle)!
Process
Product:
(sign painted/collaged by AMBER)
It's my own little world! I have windows to the street, but I can close them when I need to be in my head! Sewn-in file-pockets -- beat that IKEA. And check out my window-designing skills (a highly marketable skill in this economy I might add), creating an attractive and enticing window display for the South Elm Walkers-By. I'm really excited to work and be there, and excited for my projects to take off and get planned and organized and volunteers to be mobilized and beautiful flyer-invitations to be distributed.
Future Ideas and Exciting Things:
It's my own little world! I have windows to the street, but I can close them when I need to be in my head! Sewn-in file-pockets -- beat that IKEA. And check out my window-designing skills (a highly marketable skill in this economy I might add), creating an attractive and enticing window display for the South Elm Walkers-By. I'm really excited to work and be there, and excited for my projects to take off and get planned and organized and volunteers to be mobilized and beautiful flyer-invitations to be distributed.
Future Ideas and Exciting Things:
- This Old House-esque renovations on the Log Cabin
- Cooking shows
- Seeing my family in a week!
- Planning out SEA initiatives for the rest of the season and working towards small events and exciting projects each week
- CITY next week in my new role and new office
- Centerpiece Competitions (underway!)
- transforming the crawl-space above the bathroom (but below the ceiling) into a beautiful secret installation (!!!)
- updating my resume to be a grown-up's resume... a curriculum vitae perhaps even... and having so many people willing to work with me to make me look the best ever on paper!
- eating lots and lots of ice cream from Yum Yum's this summer....
- working and breathing and loving being in an incredible artist community where we have meetings just to brainstorm and contain all the ideas flowing all over the place (OH WAIT, done!)
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