This is a laboratory for the study of silence. True work occurs in those moments when your hands are still and your gaze is unfocused. That's when the solution comes—not as a flash of insight, but as the only possible way out of the dialogue the material has been having with you all this time.
To create a work of art is not to conquer matter, but to hear it and give it a voice. The finished work should leave a living trace of this struggle-collaboration: roughness, asymmetry, the barely noticeable trace of an accidental touch. Perfect smoothness is death. Life lies in the imprints of the process.