process | a custom leather project

I’ve been working on a fun project – a custom request with a bit of free reign on my part – and took some photos today while I worked.

I find leather work to be like a meditation. It’s a relief from machines. And it is, at least for me, a lot like sculpting. It seems to engage the same part of myself that might be engaged when I sculpt clay. It is slow, patient, and very bodily.