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What is the meaning of organization? Is anyone really organized? I doubt it. I could spend the next five years organizing everything I own, and still be disorganized. I have so many Apps on my Mac to keep me organized, and to organize and keep track of time and assignments, yet I don’t use them, use them too much, or use them needlessly.

Would it be better if I lived and worked haphazardly? Chaos theory? I cannot function with my life out of order. If my pencils are mixed with my paints, or the xacto knives are in the card stock/paper drawer, I can’t accomplish anything until I return those items to their proper place.


I have spent all day re-organizing my bedroom. I do this often. Have to, I live in such a crowded space, and have so much stuff. I wonder lately if I should give up on painting and design. Just think of how much space I would have if I got rid of my stacks of canvases and matting, paints, brushes, frames, random scraps of mixed media that I’ll never use, but would need if I ever got rid of them, charcoal, xactos, graphite, erasers, healing mats, countless rulers, and what have you.

not to mention how much dust I would get rid of. Charcoal alone loves to puff clouds of black dust at any opportunity.


I can’t get rid of those items, though. And now, add film and negatives and prints and various cameras to the mix.... oh, and there’s the recent typography obsession...and the books that go with it.


Don't get me started on books.... or I'll have to list all three of my bookshelves that are overflowing with books.


Perhaps organization is not my problem. The problem must be my interests. I love too many things; have too many hobbies. Should I give up my art in its various forms for...I don't know. What is there besides art that someone might collect, create, or love? Do only boring and linear people have space? Is a mathematician organized?