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In the weeks after we came home, the workroom filled back up, and I made it my private study to watch a thing I had been married to a maker for years and somehow never once watched: a making, beginning.
I had seen the ends of them. I had stood at the edge of the December room and watched a finished collection walk into the light. I had sat on the stool while a centrepiece broke her heart and been there for the recut, the middle of a making, the part with the deadline in it. I had even, this last time, learned to sit in the empty room after, the spent end, the fallow. But the beginning — the actual genesis, the part that happens months before there is anything anyone could photograph, when a collection is not yet a collection but only a pressure behind a maker's sternum, a colour...
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