A craft, in numbered steps.
A separate register from the photo essays and the craft monographs. Each entry below is a numbered sequence of photographs documenting how a single craft object comes into being. The captions describe what is happening; the meditation on what it means lives in the photo essays. Made for the apprentice who wants to learn the technique, the museum interpretation team that needs the working sequence, and the future practitioner who reads this archive in fifty years and wants to know how the cut was made.
The lineage: Diderot’s Encyclopédie plates (1751-1772), the canonical visual record of how things were made; the Foxfire books (1972-) for Appalachian crafts; Heritage Crafts Association’s Red List documentation now. The archive joins that lineage with each new entry.
Also · The Bench
Reader-contributed process photographs.
The work above is the curated record - commissioned, edited, and held to the archive’s editorial bar. The Bench is the lighter, contributor-led register: working craftspeople, apprentices, students, and schoolteachers documenting their own process and submitting it under their own name and copyright.
Same archive, different register. Letters page to the essay.