I have a confession to make.
I’m a closet hoarder. *gasp!*

You’d doubt this as fact if you came to visit our house. Our home is currently on the market and we’ve worked hard to keep everything in perfect order (in spite of the 4 kids). But putting it together to sell wasn’t too difficult considering my husband and I tend more towards minimalist and avoid chachke like the plague. As we start packing and considering what to keep; what to give away; what to sell, I’m faced with the decision of what to do with my art.

If you were to look through my art files, you would see what I mean by “closet hoarder”.

In the garage is a GIANT flat file. That flat file is filled with decades of art and art supplies.
As is the underneath of our guest bed filled with rolls and rolls of newsprint life drawings,
…and the guest closet is filled with art books, supplies, small paintings,
…and the laundry room contains several large paintings,
…and the master closet has multiple framed paintings. . .

You get the picture. (see what I did there?!)

In this day, where people everywhere are “kondoing” their homes – which I’m totally on board with – I just can’t seem to “kondo” ANY of my old artwork. Just like the wall in our home of 7 years marks our children’s growth (which I can’t bring myself to paint over), those artworks mark my growth and journey as an artist.

Try as I might to sort it out, it looks like each artwork will going with us to the new house.
(Sorry, babe!)

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*For those unfamiliar, “Kondoing” refers to methods outlined in Marie Kondo’s book on The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing