As winter melts into spring the angle of the sun is just so that each (sunny) day at mid-afternoon the most beautiful warm light pours into our home, which inspires me to pull the camera out.
Today I will highlight a couple of key players in my studio uniform.
First, my stack of studio denim.
Each pair of jeans in this stack has been worn beyond its usefulness in the outside world. Each pair, at one point, had been my very, very favorite, and you know how favorites go...when the time came I wasn't quite ready to let them go to be shred for recycling just yet, so for now each has been retired to live out the remainder of its days functioning as an important part of my pile of studio denim.
Studio denim is a very important part of my "uniform" at the bench. When I sit at my studio table my day is filled with tasks which include filing, sawing, sanding and drilling metal. Looking into your lap and finding silver dust, filings and bits is par for the course...just another day at the office. I do have a leather apron I could wear (believe me, it is not as sexy as it sounds), but most days I'm just in jeans. Each thigh of each pair of studio jeans is probably about 67% metal by now, and these metal-impregnated jeans are not allowed in the bedroom, they don't get thrown in the hamper, they are not worn on non-studio days, they are strictly studio jeans...and there's always a stack in the studio, so there are never any excuses to wear non-studio jeans in there. Got it?
Another "must" in the studio are my studio shoes.
In every other part of my home I'm more of a socks at most kinda person, but in the studio, those slivers and bits of metal that fall and DON'T end up on my jeans wind up scattered about the floor surrounding my work table. Slivers of metal and bare feet are not friendly to one another, and socks without shoes in the studio tend to provide an ideal place for stowaway bits which are later found throughout the house...not good. The best solution is to wear shoes in the studio, but then wearing street shoes in the studio presents yet another problem for my borderline germaphobe self...don't get me started.
Enter my studio shoes...given to me several years ago by a friend who, judging by the soles, might have worn them out of the house exactly two times...maybe not even. I can live with that. They are easy to slip on, easy to kick off and I wear them in the studio only. They never go outside and usually don't even make it beyond the studio door. They keep my feet out of the metal and the metal out of my feet. I like 'em.
And a last bit of somewhat unrelated, but still 'studio' news:
If you've been keeping up with my "production" posts about the 3 series I've been working on, you'll be happy to know that I've scheduled myself to start final assembly at the end of this week! Exciting!
Best-
-c
