I spent the day at the Michelangelo Foundation gathering at City and Guilds of London Art School during London Craft Week.

More than sixty makers and artisans connected through the Homo Faber Guide.
Different disciplines, materials, and lives organised around the same impulse.

To spend enough time thinking through a craft to slowly develop a language of your own.

In the afternoon the workshops opened.
Stone carving, wood carving, paper conservation.

The one I instinctively gravitated towards was stone carving.
Dust suspended in the air, the repetitive sound of tools against stone, small decisions repeated thousands of times.

Something that felt both familiar and completely distant from the way I normally move through the world.

Not through the objects themselves, but through the mindset behind them.

The concentration and patience required to shape something slowly, over time.

I connected with that immediately.
Less so with the repetitive movement and noise.

There is also something particular in the atmosphere around these spaces.
A sense that time moves differently there.