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Craft

The work of cutting, joining, shaping, and trying again. Stories that stay close to a material, including the awkward versions that help explain a finished object.

2 stories
A small collection of ceramic jars and vases arranged on a shelf.

A small collection of ceramics is easier to understand with the cupboard open. On the pleasure of handling a pot, the marks left by use, and deciding what deserves another year on the shelf.

In praise of the unfinished

A blunt instruction at a doorway leads into the less orderly part of making things: working proofs, rejected arrangements, and decisions that need to stay visible long enough to be reconsidered.