Handcrafts
Apart from painting, I also like to make crafts to express my ideas.
It comes about that the drifting of these curtains
Is full of long motions, as the ponderous
Deflations of distance; or as clouds
Inseparable from their afternoons;
Or the changing of light, the dropping
Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude
Of night, in which all motion
Is beyond us, as the firmament,
Up-rising and down-falling, bares
The last largeness, bold to see.
Is full of long motions, as the ponderous
Deflations of distance; or as clouds
Inseparable from their afternoons;
Or the changing of light, the dropping
Of the silence, wide sleep and solitude
Of night, in which all motion
Is beyond us, as the firmament,
Up-rising and down-falling, bares
The last largeness, bold to see.
The Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
Wallace Stevens
1919
Wallace Stevens
1919
It takes a great deal of patience and a great deal of care to carve a design with a carving knife in one stroke on a gum board.
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The finished product not only gives me a sense of achievement but also the pleasure of the creative process.
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