Order from chaos Life gives the Boston artist lemons, so he makes art studio lemonade…

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For 25 years I’ve kept the remote aspects of my studio space, including woodshop, storage and printing, in my mom’s basement. It was an ideal situation, where I could fulfil ancillary needs every fortnight, visit her and tend to her household jobs.

In March 2020, just as the US went into Covid-19 lockdown, I lost her to dementia. In the scramble to clear her property for sale, I had to find another space for remote studio needs, or liquidate the stuff and the equipment. In my search for a new space, it became clear that it was going to take much longer than I had to find the right long-term solution. Fellow artist Rick Berry and I looked at a few options around his studio in nearby suburb Arlington. Rick’s industrial studio building was slated for redevelopment, but anything we looked at paled in comparison to his studio, and my time was running out.