The Knowing Body in Prose
Hands at Work by Tom Martin, 2016. Digital Photograph. Photo by Tom Martin.
The knowledge of the body precedes language. Sights, sounds, and textures arise in the mind experientially complete, through an understanding that needs no words. But without articulation, the craftsperson's embodied experience risks going unnoticed, unrecorded, unexamined. Articulating what we know when we "know how" forces us to confront the limitations of our conceptions of skill and process. This workshop invites you to center the experience of craft in your writing. You may discover you know far more than you can say—or find yourself saying more than you knew you could. Exclusive for beginners.
Tom Martin (he/him) received a doctorate from Oxford University, where he researched perception and understanding among wooden boat builders on the American East Coast. His work engages with sensory ethnography and studies in perception, exploring how mind, body, and socio-material world connect. His current book project, Beautiful Animals, is an interspecies exploration of the aesthetics of longing.