Incubated within an art school, the studio can offer a place where communication is unrestricted and the process of making dominates. Conversely, the office can facilitate the efficient execution of business but discourage creativity. But what is the relationship between the studio and the office? Both spaces have seemed to become generic, sterile and utilitarian, the only difference being the activity undertaken within them. I find myself torn between the studio and the office, the making and the thinking, the practice and the theory.
Systems and materials are appropriated from the office and imported into the studio. The studio/office functions as a mode of production; a system of making, thinking and working. At the table I draw, accumulate marks, record. At the desk I waste time, daydream, mess around, speculate, and at times slip. The methodological process employed is material wasting, time wasting and reductive. Like an office worker trying to make their nine-to-five job go faster I use company time and company materials for a purpose they were not intended for. In the end all that is left is a trace of the process undertaken, a record of a system employed.