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The Need to Make

Not bird not badger not beaver not bee

Many creatures must
make, but only one must seek

within itself what to make

from Lament For the Makers
Frank Bidart

Choosing what to make, with what, where, with whom and why makes us human.

What to make?

“Making Tracks” Bernard Cohen (b.1933) 1975-1977
Dorothea Sharpe “Making Sand Castles”
A Galleon Making a Landfall at Montserrat John Everett (1876–1949)
Diana Dorothy Rowell (b.1930) Making a Spectacle of Herself
A scribe writing the Gospels of Kildare. c.1220
The sock knitter (1915)
Grace Cossington Smith

Where?

Pierre Bonnard ‘Work Table’ 1926/1937
Porthmeor Studio Window, St Ives
Colin Trevor Johnson (b.1942) 1994
Co-operative Smiths Banner unknown artist

And With What?

Natalie Parsley “The Tools”
Tools of the Trade
Elo Wobig

But then there are so many choices: 

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