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How do we make peace with the effort it takes to truly build beauty, meaning, a world we can actually live in with our senses, our bodies, our relationships, in a culture that seems to relentlessly insist on making our points more succinct, our paragraphs more reduced, and our results achieved by constant 'quantum leaping'?
My worldview is formed through craft, not through trends in internet thinking. My mind tends to follow my body, and the challenges I put to my dexterity. Through leaning complex skills over time. Metalwork, yoga practice, Brazilian Jui Jitsu, complex movement patterns, parenting, communication, articulation. All are a craft, none are achieved competence in through wanting to be an expert. The only path is to get involved, get sweaty, and to do the work.
I'm so honoured to be able to call myself a craftswomen. Truly, craft has taught me most of what is valuable in this life, and has allowed me to extend being an open minded student into other disciplines I want to learn.
We can put ourselves through study in our lives, we don't have to lament what we didn't get as children or in education. I continue to be a student of movement, craft and so many things that have no specific categorisation as the skills are so non impressive, but I love them.
I hope you have things you're learning in your life that you can apply yourself to over time, always feel humbled by, and developing as a skilled human being, trying their best to create and contribute a beauty others might benefit from too.
You can read more about the Embodied Artist Course here. We start on October 26th.
https://www.lorenlewiscole.com/pages/the-embodied-artist
