I was very startled to learn just
how damn dangerous just about everything we touched
and used as artists was in the 70's and 80's. I vividly recall
the sign on the printmaking studio doors... "No Student
or Faculty Shall Enter This Studio Without Exhaust Fans Operating
At All
Times."
Small mishaps with airbrush dyes, photo stop bath and lacquer
thinner put the fear of god and nasty death into me. Tends to
make one... attentive. There was a very good OSHA booklet, Hazards
for the Artist. Glad they issued it, nice to look things
up in. But I refuse to own a copy; I'll be too freaking paranoid
to work. |