Who would have thought that preparation of a space could cause so many issues? There should be a degree show manual for all the hoops you have to jump through. A white cube (within a white cube) can only have a paper roof if there is no electrical equipment inside the cube, it can only have a fabric roof if the fabric is fire proofed, you have to make (and pay for) your own roof in any circumstances - who would want a cube after all that? Then there are all the forms, health and safety, press forms, statements, forms so you can climb up ladders, down ladders, put paper over windows, paint studios (as long as they are painted back to the white cube afterwards). It is a full time exhausting job and that is before you’ve walked paint splattered feet across the shiny new black floor to even start putting work up (with a form of course). I have now been sanding walls in the same room for three days and while it is very satisfying to see a white room get whiter and a little sharper around the edges, this is not what I think is or should be important. I’m sure many would disagree, but the most exciting spaces for me, are not the unnaturally polished studio, but a space with a set of ready-made conditions worked with rather than against. A studio is still a studio - surely white washing the walls will only highlight the paint splatters on the floors.