Busied with heavy intellectual preoccupations, I didn’t have much time to make things, but in summers I found myself leaning back into craft––the physical world responds to human effort and curiosity like no strictly intellectual domain can. I went on to college in Maryland where I studied philosophy, classics, and the history of math and science––another dimension of my interests. “If you can make it, why buy it?” I thought. There, in the cold and the dark and with plenty of idle time to tinker, I got my hands dirty wherever I could: sewing, knitting, weaving, blacksmithing, making knives––nothing was off limits. In my late teens, I became voracious about craft, and when I was 18 I headed to Norway to spend a year building 18th century wooden fishing boats in the traditional Norwegian style. Much of my youth I spent in the woods back in North Carolina, building shelters, making snares, bows and arrows––anything I could think of. I’d always had a deep curiosity which manifested in tinkering and making things. She always told me it would pay off––it took me a few years, but eventually I came to love it. My mom, a classical singer by profession, strongly encouraged (forced) my sisters and I to play instruments from a young age. I’d played violin for 4 years before that but the piano called to me, or the piano bench rather––I was sick of having to stand up while practicing violin. I got my start in piano work in 2011, but the story begins long before that. Peter, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today. Today we’d like to introduce you to Peter White.
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