I do a lot of drawings that involve this knit structure, and I often figuratively lose the thread when I'm drawing, I lose the rhythm.

They're really fast, spontaneous work.

And then sometimes, I get kind of fixated on completing one long connected form that has a set of changing rules to it.

It's almost impossible not to go into a kind of trance state.

♪Auerglass playing Often, when I'm drawing, I ask myself, "Can I move from the wrist?

Can I move from the fingers, from the elbow, from the shoulder, from the center of my chest?"

♪♪ I feel like a better thinker when I draw.

There's so much wisdom embedded in techniques and procedures for crafts passed from person to person.

I think that if you're a person who marbles end papers for books for decades, you know just as much about viscosity and flow as a scientist.

But you know it through your fingertips and your senses, and in a different way.

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