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I think of handmade art and craft as a kind of communication. A communication between the artist and the materials first and then later, a between the work and the viewer. And I have often considered, how does the communication begin? For me, it begins with seeing or hearing something I respond to--whether it's a view from the trail, a stone on the path ahead of me, a painting or a piece of music. These things stay with me-- resting for a time on a table in my studio or sometimes only in my memory... But also in the process of making or creating, there is a sense of something else there, that, if I listen carefully and try to clear the way, will be able to come forward. There is always my initial response--a gesture; maybe a line of pencil across white paper, a hammer mark, a brushstroke, a handprint pressed into clay. Sometimes I move ahead of the communication, sometimes I fall behind. But in the end, if I am patient, and listen, I sense that "something else " again and make another..

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