Graphite on Canson Paper
24"x18"
Hands
The craftsman needs to develop specific relationships between thought and making, idea and execution, action and matter, learning and performance, self-identity and work, pride and humility. The craftsman needs to embody the tool or instrument, internalize the nature of the material, and eventually turn him/herself into his/her own product, either material or immaterial.
In his book Berger on Drawing, John Berger points out this identification or fusion of the maker and his/her product in the craft of drawing; "Each confirmation or denial brings you closer to the object, until finally you are, as it were, inside it: the contours you have drawn are no longer making the edge of what you have seen, but the edge of what you have become."