Yes, I listen to music constantly. But sometimes I have to work in complete silence. I have ADD (like everyone and their darn brother). Music can be very distracting. Mostly because I write a ton of poetry and song lyrics, and if I listen to music, I get a little too inspired and start thinking of things to write. But listening to music also helps me with the ADD as well as the stress and anxiety that come along with making my art. I get very compulsive, and if I don’t have music on, I will check my phone a million times, and check it for a call or text that isn’t even expected. If someone peeked in my studio and saw how many times I checked my phone they would die laughing or think someone else must be making my art for me. I have even gone to the extent of setting my alarm for ten minute increments all day long. So that I could only check my phone when the alarm went off. The flip side is that some distractions are better than others. Better the phone than the racing thoughts about EVERYTHING. Speaking of distraction, I also embarrassingly binge watch shows here and there. It’s usually when I am doing really boring stuff like sanding. Those giant embedded vascular systems that I mentioned earlier are made from twisted steel wire and hand-dyed resin. They take hours and hours to make. The vascular system for Normal Human Female took 100 hours, and I had to do it twice because the first Lucite casting wasn’t up to par. Sooooo disgustingly, I binge-watched The Walking Dead while I made them. Gore isn’t even my thing which was perfect because I didn’t have to look, I could just listen to the great story and focus on the sculpture. It cracks me up to make something that is so important to me while watching something so trite, although, the show was in fact, about the survival of the fittest. Not so off-topic.