art/work

In my language encoding lab class, we often performed or read our work, which was a mixture of computer code and poetry (and the lines between the two). Sometimes a performance would consist mostly of a person clicking words on a screen or hunched, typing while we watched on. The act of work became art, and certainly this is even more true when it comes to the place where an artist works. Even missing the actual act, the evidence of creation is compelling.

Memphis artist, Hamlett Dobbins has a website full of interesting paintings and other works, but I am most interested in his studio shots. He seems to update it regularly and we are allowed glimpses of his working life. Books piled on a bench, changing sketchbook pages, the shifting and rearranging of the studio's contents.





(all images from hamlettdobbins.com)

I suppose part of it is thinking that if we can observe someone else's creative process, we might unlike the key to creativity itself. If nothing else, it inspires and causes us to examine our own actions.