My Choices of Less...

....Always Becomes MoreAnd thereby it leaves you with more to work with too. I write poetry and draw quick sketches and more detailed drawings for good reason. Poetry distills everything down to the essentials and gets rid of the excesses. My sketches capture moments that mean something. Seeing them later—days, weeks, months, and even decades later—can transport me back to the nanosecond when I felt it to be important to capture the thought, the feeling. My recording in the moment, be it my poem or sketch, restores the whole of any event in full colour and detail. It's a remarkable archive of critical events.This was my garage-sized space I worked in and from in Willow City, Texas, back in 1990. I was forty at that time. 36 years on, I still like the tighter spaces of efficiency. You will not know a single furniture maker that's been making furniture for 61 years every single day. I think I still own over a hundred chisels, despite getting rid of most of them. Accumulation is the pit…