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Friday, June 27, 2008

Holding Things Together



This studio employs CA for projects. Cyanoacrylate, as most makers know, is the best adhesive out there for most projects. There's an art to using it properly. There's no repositioning once the process starts.

The spell is easily broken.


It requires sitting motionless for a full three minutes.

Sounds easy to anyone who hasn't done it.



Sometimes this Poppet Planet hydra I've created overwhelms me. It happens. It's not always apparent from the outside, so mostly goes unnoticed.

But once in a while, it's very, very difficult. So many choices to make, so many voices, so many distractions, so little time to work things out.


And then there are the larger questions at the edges.


Whether. Whether this or that.


Weather. Mental tornado inside, blinding light outside.


I hold two tiny parts together, waiting for the magic chemistry I can't see, but have learned to trust. I wait. I breathe. I clear my mind.


Three minutes.


I am sane. The glue holds. So far.


If I still feel like crying after the three minutes, a bit of perspective helps.