Aprophenia (see below), or a carefully curated installation? Image: Su Leslie, 2018 (click to enlarge image)
I spent much of the weekend in my friend Claire’s studio, photographing the painting and drawing workshops she was running.
In the quiet moments, I turned my lens on the studio itself, including the contents of a shelf tucked away in a back corner.
Shoe art, my friend Claire’s studio. Image: Su Leslie
And in case you’re wondering, Apophenia (/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things (Merriam-Webster).
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Zimmerbitch 
you found a fun shelf – the heart is my fav (and maybe the book title: like I give a freak)
and like the word “Apophenia”
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Thanks; the whole studio is a fun place 😀
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🙂
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What an interesting and arty collection your artistic friend has
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Her studio is an Aladdin’s cave of unusual treasures.
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Certainly is
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Your friend must be a very interesting person!
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She is. She’s a painter and book illustrator.
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I love looking at other peoples’ books – and I say this as I work toward reducing my library, so I don’t give others the pleasure of doing the same (except for a few beloved titles I can’t bear to part with).
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😀 We bought a house once based partly on the owners’ book shelves. We figured since we had the same taste in books, if they liked the house, we would too (they were moving overseas for work, and did love the house).So did we!!
I talk about reducing my library, but truly, as long as I can find space, I will keep my books. Even if I have to build furniture out of them.
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That is an awesome reason for buying (partly) a house – it makes sense to me!
I just got fed up moving the books the last time. There are those faves I read over and over, so I’ll keep those. Any more, I read most everything on my Kindle and I prefer to have books there (because wherever I go, I have all of them with me!).
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What a great word – Apophenia!
And a great shelf. Love the heart too and the cute butterfly canvas. A very arty place.
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Isn’t it a great word. I didn’t know it til yesterday, but figured there had to BE a word for that phenomenon.
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What an interesting collection on that shelf, Su.
Leslie
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The whole studio is an interesting place.
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I bet it is Su.
Leslie
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Enjoyable photos Su, the heart and a good read of the Inside Stories, for me! I do enjoy arty places.
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Thanks Suzanne. I love hanging out in this studio. It has a great vibe.
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Love your photos. Really capture your attention and allow the mind to wander to possibilities. Love this!
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Su, your artist friend’s studio reminds me so much of the studio of an artist friend of mine. Perhaps their interests and artforms are similar. 🙂
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That would be really interesting to know. My friend’s name is Claire Delaney. Here’s a link to her. Let me know if you do see connections with your friend’s work/interests. (https://www.facebook.com/clairedelaneyartist/)
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SAVING THIS WORD! Wow. Loved this post as it satisfied my curious (spying) nature!
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Hehe. I know what you mean. I love looking at the stuff people surround themselves with too.
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😉
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What a fun place to hang out, an artist’s studio! Very cool. 😎
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It is; we working on a project to document the studio over a year, so I get to go there and play often. 🙂
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Sounds great. 😀
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How fabulous. What a delicious shelf – so much colour, and texture, and interest. Love this idea. That heart 😍
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Thanks. I love the heart too — so much so that I’m thinking of making some 😀
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Oh that sounds like a fab idea!
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Now this is a favorite of mine. And not because you introduced me to a new word: Apophenia. There is a connection to a collection by one person though—it represents slices of who that person is, places they have been, loves they have fallen into or out of. The artist whose studio you photographed certainly has a varied catalogue to represent him/her. I wonder if everyone appears this mysterious and exciting taken out of context?
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Thanks 🙂 I now what you mean about ephemera, especially a collection, says so much about a person. I’ve photographed my own office shelves before and actually been surprised by what my stuff says about me.
The artist, Claire Delaney, is a very old friend and ex-neighbor. She teaches art as well as selling her paintings and illustrating books, so her studio is deliberately a sort of ‘Aladdin’s Cave’. It creates a rich environment for her students, and of course means she has all her work materials at her fingertips.
I think lots of us are encouraged to “put things away” and “be tidy”, and it inhibits the sort of informal curation of our lives through objects.
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Wonderful that you found the time to do these shots, Su! Love looking at small niches and corners to find treasures. 😉 xxxxxxx
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I’m quite conscious when there is a class in the studio that I’m an extra there, and try to spend a bit of time focusing on the space itself so that people get used to my presence before I making shots that have them in.
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