Can You Feel a Maker’s Heart Through Their Art?

你能通过艺术感受到创作者的心吗?

Good Life Project

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2014-08-13

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Have you ever picked up, looked at or listened to something so beautiful, it left you in a state of awe? And then thought… I wonder what the person who made it is like? Is what I’m looking at just an extension of their heart and soul? And, if that soul is dark, will you […]The post Can You Feel a Maker’s Heart Through Their Art? appeared first on Good LifeProject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Welcome to good Life Project, where we take you behind the scenes for in depth, candid conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, makers and world shakers.

  • Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.

  • So it's a gorgeous summer afternoon and I've just driven these people, beautiful mountains from Charlotte, North Carolina to Abington, Virginia.

  • And I find myself at the Hartwood Artisan Gateway, this stunning facility out in the mountains, where I stumbled upon a video of this luthier guitar builder named Wayne Henderson.

  • Wayne lives about an hour away, maybe an hour and a half in rugby, Virginia.

  • And I've been researching building guitars for the last few years and become kind of obsessed with the craft, but actually never heard of Wayne before.

  • So watching the video of him and his workshop, I kind of mesmerized and I have to know more.

  • And it turns out that Wayne is also a national Heritage award recipient and a bit of a legend in the guitar building world, really, for two reasons.

  • One, he's a true master.

  • He's been honing his craft as a player and as a builder for more than four decades.

  • Plays like a savant, and he builds some of the most sought after guitars in the world, which leads to number two.

  • And that is that he once made Eric Clapton literally wait ten years for a guitar.

  • Not out of spite or ego, just because he's one guy.

  • And he still does most things by hand.

  • And the list of people who want guitars from him is about ten years long.

  • So I had to know more and I did some digging and discovered this book about Wayne and his life and this really deep devotion to guitars and music and the craft and the Clapton story.

  • The book is called Clapton's guitar, and it's written by an author named Alan St.

  • John.

  • For anyone with a deep appreciation for sort of a humility driven mastery, by the way, it's a must read.

  • So something at the end of the book really grabbed me, though, something I believed for a long time.