The Tiny Studio - Its Beginning

This is a true story abut the creation of The Tiny Studio which was created in Bornheim Frankfurt where I lived and worked for 11 years, its a story of the amazing works that were created there

What was prior to the Tiny Studio, Investment banking, the trading floor, my love, the constant ecstasy. When I left THE GAME I had one frustrating question, was there indeed another me out there, well the only way to find AN ANSWER was indeed to go and look! It's not until you look back that you know you're being played and, by GOD I was, and by someone who knew more about hedging bets than me. Looking back now I was so enthralled with creating, night and day and keeping alive that I really gave no thought to what was happening, what was being born, or indeed, being reborn. You know, that kitchen very quickly took on the presence of something completely other than a place that had an oven and sink, and the works that would indeed be created in that Kitchen would redefine space and its capacity to stimulate the greatest of attitudes. What the Kitchen had said was blatantly simple, you did not need a massive fancy studio to be able to produce Art and Design, NOT BY A LONG SHOT!

What was prior to the Tiny Studio, Investment banking, the trading floor, my love, the constant ecstasy. When I left THE GAME I had one frustrating question, was there indeed another me out there, well the only way to find AN ANSWER was indeed to go and look!

The Tiny Studio was born out and knowing, its key ingredient was acceptance, there was no going back into investment banking. The Studio immediately took on an atmosphere and ethos of its own, it was both inviting and invigorating to work in, the question was was it my personal manifestation in the studio, or had indeed the studio its self-taken on a living presence of its out, I would like to think it was a partnership

I remember placing the big glass table in the kitchen then came the small wooden cabinet that I found on the street, then the graphics lamp, that I also found on the street, you know the German really do throw out some great stuff. I remember kicking off with producing abstract images, I would go and collect all the empty coloured packing boxes from the shops and create large collage works, which went on to make a collection. I created them by cutting up the coloured boxes and working with them, pretty soon the whole of the studio walls were covered with parts of my collages. I was enjoying this freedom, it was not newfound, it was in me all the time, it just wasn't allowed out and allowed to flourish. I was working none stop on those collages day and night, and I had a tiny radio for music as well, music is the secret ingredient when producing art. Another facet of this freedom was I could now see what Bornheim had to offer as well as Frankfurt. So off I went with my camera in all weathers and photographed the city, I went through those pictures and I think there's something like 3000 pictures so I will get a website made up for them. It is amazing how one adapts and climatizes to your new surroundings, a few days priors I was on an FX trading floor, now I had cerate that wounder The Tiny Studio, this place was going to have a profound effect on me and my future.

There will another article coming as there is not going to be another space to write what was created in The Tiny Studio and I am just so glad that I can write about it, the studio was to produce some great collections that took me to different venues to exhibit my works and seeing them on walls for the first time was just out of this world!

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