It took years for me to find my own aesthetic voice, the means to produce it and even longer for me to have enough life experiences to have something to say. It all seemed to weave together organically, little by little, until one day I realized that all the pieces fit together …
Mark Osterman
FINDING CONFIDENCE: COMBINING PROCESS WITH PURPOSE
THE SEEDS OF PROCESS
The punching machine scared the hell out of me. I was working in a machine shop one summer, punching out little electrodes from ribbons of beryllium brass. I was 15 and it was easy work compared to previous summers when I was bailing hay. On my lunch breaks, the owner let me mill around in the attic of the shop where he stored mountains of antiques, trunks and furniture, ...
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