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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
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| Photography: Marcus Hay |
There is just something I love about workshops, in an ideal world I would love to have one, but living in Manhattan with an apartment and 2 storage units already, I might be pushing the limits. Workshops are where great things happen though; I often think it is the things that perhaps get overlooked in workshops that are the most fascinating. It’s the element of surprise, the way the paint can left its messy rings, the testing of colors on a random swatch. It could be the stacking of painted planks of wood, the outlines left over from painting blue tiles. Stencils, rulers, tools, old ladders, these are all such fascinating things for me, I never tire of them.
I am in and out of workshops a lot with the overseeing of sets, working with set builders is a great process even though sometimes I still do feel like we speak a different language at times, Being an Art Director or a Stylist means your language by nature I think can come across as a bit flowery, Most set builders talk in measurements and as the expression goes in “nuts and bolts” A great set builder can be multi lingual or as time goes on a Stylist or Art Director gets to know the terms needed to get the job done.
It’s probably why I am the one wandering around workshops with my camera taking photo’s of what most would consider just messes and finding the beauty there, You can make the old “Jackson Pollack” analogy and get caught up in just the drips, splotches and strokes, but really there is way more to look at then just that. As most would see from my current website I have a fascination with pegboard. I love its simple approach to organization; nothing is greater than a wall of organized tools of the trade (or if you were Julia Childs, organized pots and pans) on pegboard. I love vintage hardware; it reminds me of my Grandfathers mechanics workshop that I was fascinated with as a kid, brushes are such beautiful things to me also and vessels for such creativity.
These images have been collected over the last couple of years, A collection of many that inspire me, I hope you enjoy my tour of the workshop and catch a glimpse of a behind the scenes world you don’t often see, It is the place of reality, where amazing things happen to help create the end result, I feel privileged to be witness of it and work with many set builders who bring so much to table.
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