3 aspects of reality no one can avoid:
1. Pain
2. Uncertainty
3. Constant work

Learn to love the process of dealing with these 3 things

“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast.” —Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Are there certain qualities you look for in the objects you curate? Aspect of tactility, whether it’s in an object’s texture or weight Something unexpected in a detail, the delight of discovering how the detail makes using it more memorable or special  Visual interest, something we find beautiful