Most people fit their creative practice into the spaces they find, adjusting to the confines of a building or a room or whatever corner is at hand. When artists Anat Shiftan and Jamie Bennett had the chance to renovate a 1960s Cape Cod, however, tailoring it to their art practices, the couple didn't hesitate—they tore the house down to its studs. "Both of us are pretty spontaneous," says Bennett, a fine art jeweler known for his expertise in enameling techniques, "especially when it comes to how we work." In fact, it isn't unusual for his wife, the ceramicist Anat Shiftan, to wake up in the middle of the night and take to her studio, where she creates botanically inspired sculpture, tiles, and ceramics that explore both the abundance and limits of the natural world.