Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction

Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters). --Nick Offerman In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski the answer is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of working with one's hands to create unnecessarily beautiful things shapes the builder into a more complete human being. In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Shop Class as Soulcraft Rogowski's Handmade is a profound meditation on the eternal value of manual work creativity human fallibility and the stubborn pursuit of quality work. Rogowski tells his life story of how he became a craftsman and how years of persistent work have taught him patience resilience tolerance for failure and a love of pursuing beauty and mastery for its own sake. Part autobiography part guide to creativity and part guide to living Handmade is a book for craftspeople artists and anyone who seeks clarity purpose and creativity in their work -- and it's the perfect antidote to a modern world that thinks human labor is obsolete.

Paperback: 184 pages

Publisher: Linden Publishing (December 1 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1610353145

ISBN-13: 978-1610353144

Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.4 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces