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🗓️ 13 June 2023
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Drowning in piles of paper? Find it hard to decide what you still need to keep in your studio...? Today we take a closer look into the psychology of your creative space with Helen Sanderson, author of The Secret Life of Clutter. With a creative background herself, Helen believes in our key strengths; we are resourceful and have a strong desire to gather - because that's often when we are inspired. But when yesterday's things start to impact your creative space in the NOW, that can be detrimental to how your work can develop.
Throw in whole host of unhelpful beliefs about creative identity thriving in a muddle and you have a recipe for clutter taking over. You'll get to hear Helen's thoughts about our homes being a Flight Deck, the links between decisions being made visible and the maturing process which can help you on this journey.
With a complex mix of efficiency and emotions, wanting to be stimulated while also having spaces which serve us, this is something we all approach with a variety of history and different process. You can find lots of resources and take the quiz on Helen's website:
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The Secret Life of Clutter (book) by Helen Sanderson
The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
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0:00.0 | crayons that you might want to use, paints, papers, life drawings, all of those things, have they then started to impinge on the now moment? |
0:09.2 | Yeah. So, you know, it's like, yes, you need those things to grab and create with. But if your moment is getting |
0:17.0 | smaller and smaller and smaller and more and more cramped, then it's difficult for then to be in the in the flow. |
0:23.0 | Hello and welcome to art juice. This is honest, generous and humorous |
0:32.0 | conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking. |
0:36.8 | And today might also be a little bit of a challenge, so it definitely comes under the thinking |
0:41.5 | category. You're joining me, Alice Sheridan, and I have a lovely guest with me, Helen Sanderson, who has an expertise in an area that I think all of us can benefit from. Helen works as a professional declutterr and if the idea of the phrase of that makes you shrink because we all have those little piles or things that hide in corners that we can't quite face up to. |
1:07.5 | This is going to be the conversation for you. I know I thought of her this weekend as I was clearing space for open studios and |
1:15.6 | artists at home but the work she does goes far far deeper than that so I |
1:20.0 | think this is going to be a great conversation come along with us for the ride and I know that if you put some of what we talk about into action this is going to make changes for you. Welcome to Art Juice Helen. It's lovely to have you here. |
1:31.0 | Thank you for having me. Great. I'm so pleased to be joining you and of course because I |
1:37.3 | started off my life journey as an artist. I'm very happy to be serving your audience so that's really great. |
1:45.0 | Well we had a lovely session in the membership and we were just chatting before we kicked off about |
1:50.3 | you know the really nice impact that that has had on people in all sorts of different ways which I think we'll kind of come back to as we talk about why this stuff makes such a difference. I think it's interesting just to let people know |
2:05.4 | there are a couple of things about this. You and I first connected over 10 years ago |
2:11.2 | on a course which was about bringing what you love into action and making things happen. |
2:18.0 | And there were quite a few people on that course and I think we connected because I wasn't doing an art project then I was |
2:25.1 | doing something about your space at home and I think that's why we have kept in |
2:29.8 | touch so firstly it's interesting that people you meet through these things you're still in touch with and things come round actually quite a long time later. |
2:39.0 | But just tell us first, why is your environment, from what you've seen, why is our environment and the space |
2:49.7 | that we create around us so important for people? |
2:53.2 | Well, firstly, I think that your home is how you express yourself. |
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