Letting the work change us
In last week’s hard-won letter I discussed the value of the mental and emotional states we find ourselves in being more important than the products of those states and how certain activities (the work) can bring those states into being inside you.
Over the last week I’ve made some 45 prints as I prepare my Winter 2022 Box and I went from states of complete frustration to deep curiosity to fatigue and ultimately to a sort of elation, but what’s more interesting to me is I feel like a different person than I was when I clicked send last week.
How can this be?
The week started off horribly with a very hard to diagnose printer issue causing blurry prints.
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