FEBRUARY 2021 — JKO STUDIO

SLOG・FEBRUARY 2021

MONDAY FEBRUARY 1ST

PERSONAL DEADLINES

(INSERT FUNNY DOUGLAS ADAMS QUOTE ABOUT DEADLINES HERE)

(NO WAY, YOU DON’T KNOW IT? HURRY, GO FIND IT!)

At the beginning of January I gave myself a deadline.

My cynical self snickered when I set the goal for this website to go live on February 1st, no matter how much or little was done. Seeing as at this very moment it is now March 2nd…I’m a little past due.

My poor Art History professor had to email me that phrase a lot, PAST DUE. Once I was given the whole summer to turn in papers for his class I had already technically failed and I still waited until the last possible second to start and finish them. It’s not that I didn’t want to write the essays or didn’t care about the assignments. It was this constant struggle to articulate my thoughts perfectly into words, my feelings perfectly into phrases.

What does this have to do with working on my website? Umm I got a little lost but I digress…

I spent all of February obsessing over every detail of this website. I’m pretty sure I made at least 6 different websites just trying to finish this one. Who knows, maybe by 2022 you’ll actually be getting to read this finally.

I wanted to challenge myself this year to do what makes me uncomfortable, to power through what I usually avoid. I am starting to realize I have way better chances to “learn in the doing” than waiting for sudden perfection and understanding.

TAKING A MUCH NEEDED SUNSHINE BREAK FROM MY WEBSITE

BUT REALLY I WAS JUST OUT THERE TAKING NOTES ABOUT MY WEBSITE

HUNTING DOWN ALL THE DIFFERENT PHOTOS, MUSHING THEM INTO SOME SORT OF THEME, THEN DELETING THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T GO TOGETHER...THE STORY OF FEBRUARY

I FIND THAT IF I MAKE LISTS AND WRITE INTENTIONS DOWN I WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE ON TO DOING THEM...SOMETIMES

I REDID THIS PAGE SO MANY TIMES THAT I JUST LOOPED BACK AROUND AND MADE IT LOOK THE WAY IT DID FROM THE BEGINNING

SCRIBBLE STORMING A LOGO-ISH THING; REALLY I JUST WANTED TO DRAW BAGS AND PILLOWS OVER AND OVER

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18TH

I FORGOT TO MEASURE FROM THE TRIM IN THE CLOSET SO THE SHELVES THAT I PLANNED TO USE DIDN'T FIT

SO I SAT IN THE CLOSET AND POUTED FOR A MINUTE AND TRIED TO MAKE THOSE SHELVES FIT

THEN WHEN I FINALLY ACCEPTED THEY WEREN'T GOING TO FIT I GOT TO WORK

I GUTTED ALL OF THE SHELVES IN THE WHOLE HOUSE AND LEFT MYSELF THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SPACE TO MANEUVER

YAY! I CAN ACTUALLY GET MATERIALS FROM THE CLOSET NOW, IT'S LIKE MY OWN PERSONAL STORE

FINALLY I HAVE ROOM FOR THE PRINTER AND LITTLE BABY RODY IS SAFE OFF THE FLOOR FROM THE DOGS

THIS GRID STORAGE THING WAS JUST IN THE HALLWAY HOLDING NOTHING...NOW IT'S A LOVELY FABRIC WALL

NOT ONLY DOES THE DOOR HOLD EXTRA STUFF BUT IT CAN OPEN ALL THE WAY, SMALL JOYS!

A STUDIO REARRANGE

BECOMES A WHOLE HOUSE REARRANGE

BECOMES A WEEK LONG OH MY GOODNESS THERE IS SO MUCH STUFF

REARRANGE

Contrary to popular belief, I really do like to clean and organize. My brain especially likes to clean and organize precisely when there is some other task I would like to avoid if only there was good reason to. What I thought would just be a weekend rearrange of the studio turned into a musical chairs masquerade throughout the whole house. A half inch mis-measurement caused a lot of trouble, but in the end it actually made every room in the house function more efficiently. Whether I subconsciously sabotaged myself or not, my brain was happy for the break away from the computer.