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Whether it's advertisers touting craftmanship, macho mechanics with a superiority complex, or craftivists proclaiming their own virtues, watch out: Craft is a lot more complicated than that. ...
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What does craft look like? You probably have a positive image: The furniture maker sawing in a sweet-smelling woodshop, or the potter lining up wheel-thrown vessels on long boards. But skill is entirely compatible with exploitation. In fact, if we look at the whole global production of handmade products, not just the artistic objects shown in these pages, it is obvious that most artisans in the world operate under difficult circumstances. Other images leap to mind: Garment workers bent over sewing machines, or Andreas Gursky's stunning photograph Nha Trang, Vietnam, which shows a vast workforce assembling chairs and baskets from ...
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My friend Katie Cleaver is a jeweler in Vermont. She works in a studio that is also her shop, so she passes easily and often from her bench at the back of the store to the counter and display cases in the front. But this is not the only transition she makes. When she is with her customers, she operates not so much as a metalsmith, but as something, someone else - perhaps a therapist, a beautician, a bartender, a confidant. Which is to say, she listens. I've witnessed it myself when her customers come in to mark a milestone with ...
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Intellectually speaking, there isn’t much difference between a Pilchuck glassblowing demo and a televised lumberjacking competition. ...
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