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[Liz Magor: Everyone Should Have A Studio]

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If I'm not here, I want to be here.

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And I want to work.

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It's a quiet space.

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It has really good light.

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The light comes from the East.

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A lot of people don't know I'm here.

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I don't have my name on the door.

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I meet my friends outside of the studio.

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It's my space--totally my space.

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Working might be a placating[br]or calming situation

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where I have no distractions.

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I was going to say it's like meditating,[br]but what do I know about meditating?

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[LAUGHS] Not very much!

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It's a way to keep myself on a single focus--

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on a single track--

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and there's something pleasurable about that.

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So I'm here for pleasure, in a way,

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although it's not fun.

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When I cast my material into this[br]mold of a paper bag,

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then I get a positive.

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That yellow will come to the outside.

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And it's part of my wanting to[br]make these objects have some

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vitality or vivaciousness.

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The contents are going to be[br]pushing for your attention.

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The yellow is pushing[br]to get the bag to be alive.

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I keep the studio in a very[br]rudimentary state

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in terms of the technology[br]and the systems that I use.

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I'm not investing in equipment--

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I'm not a factory.

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It's because I want to be able

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to quit whatever thing[br]I might be interested in

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and move on to a completely different thing.

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I'm thinking, so I need to be mobile.

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This might sound pretentious,

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but it's like a place[br]for physical philosophy.

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I talk a lot about the "below the radar"

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or the "ever-present-but-unacknowledged" things.

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And to me, these are part of that realm[br]because they're brilliant.

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This is brilliant!

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And I want my mold making to register them.

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Although that's...

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those are air bubbles.

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--So this is the front and that's the back.

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--And the front has fragile things[br]sticking out.

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I need a very quiet studio,

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because a work starts with me acknowledging

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those ever-present, not noisy[br]operations in the world.

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They're always there,[br]but they're not always acknowledged.

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Those are the things I'm interested in.

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Everyone should have a studio.

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They should be issued by the government[br]as health-mandated items.

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Because it is a place where you

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kind of line up all those dissonances

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and have a good look.