John Biscello

Craft. Tactile homage,

and respect to craft,

its inviolable depths

and integrity,

to approach craft

as you would a fertile god,

to practice, radically, at its altar,

to consecrate with marked intent,

and to know in your heart’s heart

that you are always a beginner,

beginning again,

muddying your fresh prints

in texture well beyond your grasp,

yet always reaching, always beginning,

always lush loss renewing

the most noble call

to failure,

approximating countless measures,

where artists dare to tread

heaven’s ground

as time-locked beginners.