The downstairs half of Aladogan’s Amsterdam studio, one of many live-work spaces that Dutch artists and creatives can rent by adding their name to a citywide waiting list. In this building — which also houses the studio of the graphics duo Niessen & de Vries — Aladogan is part of a small board that votes on any incoming tenants. “Most of the time I don’t work here,” she admits. “I make models and drawings, but I do anything bigger in workshops.” The masking tape on the floor was for a 1:1 paper model she made to test the scale of a recent sculpture.