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Why we keep making things nobody asked for
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Nobody asked for the song you wrote at midnight, or the cabinet you sanded back over three weekends. You made it anyway.
Making is a way of paying attention
To draw something you have to look at it longer than you normally would. Making forces a kind of attention that ordinary life rarely asks of us.
And a way of reaching someone
Most things we make are, quietly, addressed to somebody. A letter in a drawer is still a letter. Even private work carries the hope of being received.
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