From:
"George Graham" <georgergraham@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:12:43 -0500
Subject:
setting up a studio
Dear all,
I'm now in the process of setting up a studio where I can do any kind of
carving I want and make all the noise and dust I want, and not have to worry
about arrested for disturbing the peace!! Having the right location to do
stone work has been a real problem over the years, but now things are
working out.
I've rented a perfectly ugly, functional space in an old industrial factory
building. I'm on the ground floor, corner of the building, with a garage
door for a truck to drive in. There is enough height to allow a steel beam
set up to hang a chainfall from. The old tenet had the place filled up with
old scrap metal. When it was cleaned up the landlord and I were pleased to
discover that it was already wired for 220 volts.
That was the good news, the bad news is that when you rent a space that is
made of uninsulated brick and concrete, and have no neighbors to help heat
shared walls, and you are in western NY and it goes down to -10F, its too
cold to work, because the heater can't get the temp. above 30. So now I'm
hanging plastic to enclose a smaller space to work in that can be heated.
Hopefully I'll be back to carving in my tiny , ugly, perfectly functional
studio before the next artic blast from Canada arrives on Wednesday! Watch
out what you wish for, , you might get it !!
Updates to follow
George Graham
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