Creative Space - Anastacia Kadomtsev

I initially set out to design in detail what two creative spaces, one cultivating risk, and one cultivating safety, would actually physically look like. As I thought back on our class discussions on what constituted creative "safety" and "risk," it became more difficult for me to differentiate between the distinct elements of such in a visual form. To me, a physical space is a physical space, and it's more about the circumstances and contexts surrounding such that causes it to encompass characteristics of one or the other. Such circumstances could involve things like privacy, security, and the purpose behind the space and why I am creating art there. I began to consider how characteristics of safety and risk could be interchangeable, for myself. Unlimited access to resources, for example, could cultivate risk, as you have more freedom to pursue such. It can also cultivate safety, as since you're not forced to push yourself as much to adapt to your limited resources. For me, this project became a work in progress about trying to find out what aspects of creative safety and risk are actually completely separate, and how that could be visually depicted.