My ideal workspace is wherever I am when a thought or an image comes to mind and I can sit with my sketchbook.  I have always carried a notebook with me, for at least thirty years.

This hand to paper, mediated by my fountain pen or RoTo pencils, switches on my mind and focuses my attention. As I draw or write, all of my senses become more acute—apprehending everything around me more clearly and precisely.

A paradox, but true.

Above: It’s All One Thing, installation of 100 Rotondi notebooks at BROODWORK: It’s About Time

If I am looking at something, someone is speaking, or my mind’s eye has conjured an image, I begin to diagram and write what I see and hear. Thoughts and ideas merge into visual thinking.

Above: Rotondi working with Ven. Lama Chodak Gyatso Nubpa

My hand moves at the speed of an evolving idea as it appears on paper. Writing and sketching is a form of uploading rather than down loading.

I work in this way, most often, at home, at RoTo (my office).

And at SCI-arc, and at Miracle Manor Retreat in the desert, which April Greiman and I own.

But I also work on the road (especially on a plane), which is my quiet time.