Begin with
what is there.
A surface, a pigment, a found object. Materials offer possibilities and impose limits. Their resistance can become part of the work.
04 / THE STUDIONothing appears
Nothing appears
from nowhere.
Before a work reaches the wall, there are materials, experiments, decisions and time.
Begin with
Make room
for the unexpected.
A test can reveal something a plan could not. Repetition, variation and interruption help a practice develop its own language.
Knowing what
to leave.
Making is also editing. A work takes shape through choices about what remains, what changes and when to stop.
A process is not
a straight line.
The finished work does not always reveal the route that led to it. Returning, revising and beginning again are also forms of progress.
Looking at process can make a familiar work newly visible. A tool, a sketch or a discarded version may reveal the decisions behind its apparent simplicity.
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