Ten seconds of a chisel
Ten seconds, slowed down, of the only part of the job that makes a sound.
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Enova Studio
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Attention
The middle is where the work is
Every project has a long, unglamorous stretch after the idea stops being interesting and before the end is in sight. That stretch is the job.
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The stonemason who works in centuries
with Ellen Marsh · 1h 04m
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Reading
Reading forty books a year, honestly
How many I finish, how many I abandon, and the rule that changed both numbers.
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A day of writing, unedited
Twenty-two minutes of an ordinary Tuesday, including the eleven where nothing happens.
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Working Life
MembersWhat I got wrong about mornings
It is 4:52 in the morning in February and I am standing in a cold kitchen waiting for a kettle, because at five
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A sign painter on getting the R right
with Devon Aluko · 58m
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Workshops
What the stonemason said
Nineteen years on one cathedral, and one sentence that reorganised how I think about a desk.
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Attention
Nothing happened for an hour
I sat in a yard for an hour with a camera and did not press the shutter. A note on what that is for.
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A luthier on listening to wood
with Tomás Bergh · 1h 11m
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Reading
Notes on rereading the same four books
I stopped chasing new titles two years ago. Here is what a decade of rereading gave back instead.
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The only three things on my desk
A short film about subtraction, made after the fourth thing was removed.
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Newsletter
Clara Whitfield
Essays, films and a fortnightly letter about attention and the slow work of making things.