The chip can execute functions within nanoseconds. Speed and power are goals in its development. Our clients barrage us with the product of the electronic, information age—words. It is ever more difficult to focus and delve into our work as more and more information arrives and requires reading, discussion, responses.

Technology beckons constantly, removes the tactility of materials and shifts us into a realm of words and simulation where all is eventually possible. We hesitate to share the creative process with technology, yet yearn for it to shorten the more mundane tasks to be performed. While the computer invites us to enter our ideas onto its pixellated pallette, we hang onto our craft tools, the materials of our creative process. These are the materials of our ideas, we touch and squeeze them, we chew on them and transform them as we use them up.