Za-zen is a meditative Zen concept of ‘sitting and watching’ your internal self. Meditation is letting your mind be, thoughts will come and go, you cannot force judgement upon your thoughts. Step outside of yourself and watch your mind think and flow as if they were clouds and you are lying on a grass verge watching them float by. 

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The maker aims to find a similar flowing state in making where not only do his thoughts do as they wish but so do his hands. A state of flow allows one to dissolve into the act of making, to find oneself in the sculpture. It is as if the artisan does not make the decision of action but instead something else is acting through him. Each piece made is born from the internal landscape, like all these thoughts that cannot be put into words manage to flow out of the hands of the maker and into an abstract physical format. It’s a cathartic process that flows in all directions, He learns something from the metal and the metal has learnt its form from him, there was no tension in the flow state only a sharing of energy.