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Can a laptop function as a studio? Can a website function as an artwork?

If I reflect on all the various studios I’ve had over the past thirty-five years, they all fulfillled one key function- a retreat, a place to go to make things. Over the past few years I’ve had studios- ususally for specific projects- a suite of paintings or drawings, but increasingly the space has become less permanent, more transient and circumstantial, based on the needs of the project.

This past May I was in Banff for six weeks. I asked for a space with an interenet connection with a window and a view. They gave me a beauitful office/studio on the second floor of the Peter Lochhead Building- it was ideal. It had a big table, a wall I could post prints and drawings, and a couch and chair and a beautiful view west overlooking the town of Banff and the mountains.