Making things slowly: a conversation

The studio is smaller than people expect, I imagine.

Always. Everyone who visits says that. They have an idea from the work that there is some large operation behind it. In fact it's a room with a table and a lot of shelving and a very good lamp. The work is slow. That's on purpose.

Intentionally slow?

Yes. I got tired of speed. I worked in a way that valued how much I could produce, and then one year I produced a great deal and liked almost none of it. The slowness is corrective. When you can only make ten things in a year instead of a hundred, you make sure the ten are worth it. Sometimes I make only four or five things I keep. The rest are useful failures. You learn from them, you don't sell them.