I have just signed up to the 'Craft Matters' campaign that asks why craft is important to the social, economic, educational and cultural life of individuals in the UK. The craft council believes that everyone should have to opportunity to make, see, collect and learn about why craft matters.
The campaign hit a cord with me and this is what I had to say:
What is it about our hands that tell us so much about ourselves and, the work that we do? Have a look at your own hands – what story do they tell?
What is it that connects the eye to hand to heart?
'Our sense of touch', said Barbara Hepworth, 'is a fundamental sensibility ... giving us the ability to feel weight and form and assess its significance'.
The touch of a hand is what gives us the capacity to communicate as unique individuals – with all our faults and blips … we are not machine made.
