Nothing is more personal than our own studio, where we generate great ideas, daydream, sing aloud etc. .. Here’s an article from BBC that links personal spaces to creative minds.
Are we able to think clearly when surrounded by mess because chaos is inherent in all our minds, even those of the great writers and thinkers, asks Clive James.
“It’s in chaos. The pontificator with plans for fixing the world can’t organise his own desk, and as for what lies beyond the desk, forget about it. The evidence that I’ve spent years forgetting about it is all out there. Piles of old newspapers and magazines. Stacks of box files containing folders containing memos about the necessity to buy more folders and box files. Hundreds of books uselessly hidden behind hundreds of other books. A small statue of a Sumo wrestler, or else a life-sized statue of a small Sumo wrestler. A bag of random receipts that my accountant might have found quite useful in their year of origin, 1998.”
Continue article at BBC

December 8th, 2008 - 12:11 am
YES. This was what i was telling my friends in Portland when they saw how messy my desk was.
Creativity happens within chaos.