| While I've always found designing easier than the technical process of building furniture, the passion to see my designs manifest motivated me to overcome this limitation and I now find the act of building to be a most wonderful, even magical, experience. One surprising aspect of the experience of building furniture has been the need to let go of the familiar time-based "professional" mode and operate rather in a mode of discovery; of timeless, present-moment- awareness; essentially puttering as an "amateur" in the truest sense of the word. I say "need" because I've found that whenever time or money becomes an issue while working, things don't flow as well as when I see each moment as totally complete and all there is. As such, each ordinary moment becomes extraordinary as a deeper process opens, which quite amazingly results in greater efficiency and quality of result! |
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| Another wonderful aspect of this work for me is my relationship to the wood. In a very real sense, the wood is the star-of-the-show and the essential reason I'm attracted to the work. I collect and display my wood, love it and am often inspired by it and seemingly used by it, to create designs that come out-of-the-blue, from the wood itself, or so it seems. |
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