cleaning the SOHO

I pull back the curtains, and let the room flood with afternoon daylight.

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Today I resolve, finally, to clean out my new workroom, and to preliminarily pack our work stuff in. This room, Jan's ex-room, will become our new splashwurks workspace, for making art, for desktop work, for meetings. It is the best room in the flat, because it has the most light.


To tell the story of the evolution of the splashwurks artspace:

We gave up the studio at East Coast Road because we had not enough manpower and time to make the place profitable. Which was a waste because given the time we could have done it, but because we see ourselves as shrewd business folks we are not that overly sad about it - take it like a man, they say. Anything that does not make money is a burden to us in cash and mind, so, we cut it off, like a branch that does not bear fruit. Anyway, because our current main business is site-specific, so we are never homeless and spaceless to the point of inability to function.

Of course, us being H and E, we want to have an artspace nonetheless, because we like to have a place to lounge with our colleagues, to make art for art's sake, to have management meetings and the like, and to do our administrative stuff more properly. In future when we have enough members on board, our artspace will graduate from this SOHO for sure. Coffee parlour anyone? This current SOHO artspace will serve kopi c and darjeeling tea for the moment.

We will be removing the bed (anyone wants to buy a tilam?) in the room and bringing in our tables from H's place to make deskspace and a meeting cum artwork table. This will mean that the living room will finally, once again, be clear of art materials and other work stuff, and my room will hopefully be neater after this conversion.


The room is incredibly dusty: 3 pails of dirty water so far! But it makes me glad and sniffly all at the same time.