Quiet rage
Joel Bukiewicz
There’s a quiet rage in the craftsman who spends an extra hour, an extra day, pushing his work toward perfection. The swollen knuckles, the missing fingertips and cracked skin. There’s a rage behind doing it right. A rage against profit, and scaling; against outsourcing, and wholesaling, and cheaper and more. A rage against the sacrifice it demands, and the ease with which it might slip away.
There’s a rage in saying I don’t want your money, what I want is to do it right. It’s a rage against mediocrity, and all the garbage touted as design that stuffs our world.
I used to think that making as perfect a thing as I’ve got it in me to make filled me up. But the truth is I’m overfull. When I finish a piece that’s more perfect than perfect, it’s an unbuckling, a pouring out. The rage is all and I’m King Kong on the loose, rampaging neighbourhoods.
Joel Bukiewicz makes knifes for people who love to cook. He lives above his workshop in Gowanus, Brooklyn with his wife Julia.
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