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“When you’re making something, you don’t know what it is for a really long time. So, you have to kind of cultivate the space around you, where you can trust the thing that you can’t name. And, if you feel a little bit insecure, or somebody questions you, or you need to know what it is, then what happens is you give that thing that you’re trying to listen to away. And so how do you kind of cultivate a space that allows you to dwell in that — not knowing?”

—Ann Hamilton, “Making, and the Spaces We Share.”

Workers make Papyrus at a family workshop in Al Sharqia Governorate in the Egyptian Nile Delta.

(Photo by Chaoyue 超越 PAN 潘)