Close the studio

Nine years, two employees, and a business that had stopped being the point.

Took
One reading
Came with
Nine years and a decision already made
Decided
September 2025
Since
Freelance, half the work, all of the good half
Studio 1
Fig. 01

She wanted a second opinion on a decision she had already reached, which is a real use of two hours and not a waste of them. We spent most of it on the two people she employed, because the guilt was doing the arguing and the numbers had gone quiet. Then we wrote the order of operations: who is told, in what week, and what she would say to the client who would take it worst. She closed it in October and kept the smaller half of the work, freelance, from a desk at home.

Fig. 02 The corner she walked to at eleven every morning
Fig. 03 The street it opened onto