Make:Sense

Craft trains the senses.
Presence unifies them.

Sensory films exploring craft, perception and attention.

The series

Make:Sense is a series of sensory films exploring the trained attention of artists and craftspeople. Through close observation, natural sound and conversation, each film enters a practice from the inside — less to explain how something is made than to experience how repeated making trains the senses and changes what a person learns to notice.

Volume I

Uzbekistan

Ceramics

Abdulvahid Bukhoriy — Bukhara, Uzbekistan
A ceramicist in Bukhara reviving a tradition lost for more than a century.

Suzani Embroidery

Mukhabbat Kuchkorova — Shofirkon, Uzbekistan
A master of embroidery saves her neighbourhood, and the world.

Ceramics

Rustam Usmanov — Rishtan, Uzbekistan
Watch the perfect copper bowl be hammered into existence.

Woodcarving

Mirzayunus Umarov — Kokand, Uzbekistan
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Silk Paper Making

Sanjar Mukhtarov — Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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People

Meet the artists and craftspeople at the heart of Make:Sense — and the practices, places and ways of seeing that shape their work.

Field Notes

Letters from the field —
reflections, sensory exercises and observations on craft, attention and the art of noticing.