Soetsu Yanagi’s “The Beauty of Miscellaneous Things,” from 1926, describes a phenomenology of making in which the maker is not a sovereign artist, repetition is not the enemy of creation, and beauty grows with use. In so doing, he gives us a vocabulary for a non-authoritative, non-authoritarian, non-authorial craft practice that the other texts struggle to find.
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