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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Workshops
Notes from other people's benches: stone, lead, wood, thatch, lime.
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What the stonemason said
Nineteen years on one cathedral, and one sentence that reorganised how I think about a desk.
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Interviewing people who go slowly
Fourteen conversations in, a method has emerged, and most of it is about the first hour.
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The letterpress test
An hour setting one line of type by hand, and what it does to the way you cut a sentence.
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On borrowed notebooks
Every notebook I own was a gift from someone whose workshop I photographed. I am not sure that is a coincidence.
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What a thatcher reads in the sky
Gwen Trask can tell you what Thursday will do. She has never once looked at a forecast.
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