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| Dream House |
Ensconced verb
[with object and adverbial of place]
- establish or settle (someone) in a
comfortable, safe place: Agnes ensconced herself in their
bedroom
Origin: late 16th century (in
the senses 'fortify' and 'shelter within or behind a fortification'; formerly
also as insconce)
Creativity needs a room
of its own, as Virginia Woolf wrote - a space in which to lay down paint and
pen to paper, to let ideas flow through you into tangible form. Only after long walks during which it gets to
breathe and play. Where it has been given
the freedom to regenerate, to be wild, and to knock you off your feet; will it then
need a quiet, clear, almost sacred space within which to take form. That safe place in which to ensconce oneself
in peace and blissful solitude and create.
Not so easily done in
our busy lives of working and family and the demands of daily life. Often it’s snatched moments at kitchen tables,
packing away the tools of our trade before the kids come home from school. Or
working late into the secret night when everyone is asleep, catching their
dreams in the silence.
It’s not just about physical
space either, but mental space. I feel that the two go together anyway,
my room gets messy when my head feels messed up. Living in my parents’
home has many good things about it but I am now living within their lives and
all that comes with it. I am cramped
into one room full of family stuff, which is also quite dark being north facing
so the sunlight rarely penetrates the window.
I find I suddenly miss my old flat so much, despite the noisy
neighbours.
Filled with this light
airy space, my own things around me, a big table with my art materials laid out
ready; it proved irresistible - I couldn’t fight the yearning to paint for long. As spring really takes off I long for
those seemingly endless days of the weekends there, filled with walks and writing
and painting. So it has set me thinking about creating a new sacred space
in which to work. Probably a garden shed with a wood burning stove, that would be just the thing.
However what I would really LOVE is to have a
studio like one of these amazing places...
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| Pitchford Hall Tree House |
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| Storybook House, Kitsap County |
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| Beverly Hills Witch House |
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| Hobbit House, Hawaii |
