The Edge of Will

This is a record of my travels through material and symbolic worlds in cycles of creating, re-creating, and being created by earthly materials, universal forces, and human inspirations.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

An heirloom finished & a new craft (to me)

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This is the blade I presented to Bridget Mohan and Ben Flanagan one beautiful summer night in 2014. It's now theirs, and it could no...

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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

An Heirloom in the Make

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Back in December I was at a cozy farm in New Hampshire, sheltering from the snow with old family friends and talking about the coming summer...

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

What happens after hearth melting

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Last week I got together with Prof. Justin Fermann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst chemistry department, a great enthusiast ...

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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Birch-moon

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This knife belongs to a close friend, who spends a lot of time on the border between nature and dream. This knife is cloudy contemplation...

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Monday, April 14, 2014

More Hearth-Melting!

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A few weeks ago, I did another round of hearth-melting at my friend Jack McAuliffe's shop in Worcester, MA. He's definitely got thi...

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

The other side

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' What the smelter, smith and alchemist have in common is that all three lay claim to a particular magico-religious experience in their...

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Stefen's Sax

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I made this sax for a great scholar and friend of mine. He is well learned in much of the old lore as well as experienced in new systems of...

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Elias Sideris: Massachusetts, United States; I love stories, swords, words, and folk, and I try to use my love of making things to express my love for the stories of us people, who I am trying to understand.

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