"Keeping your heart in the work can be a challenge at times. The work that I do with fabric and custom interiors certainly has a strong labor aspect. I often think of what I do as sculpting with fabric-- this keeps the heart active and alive in my work. Fabric has texture, color, patterns, pliability, sensuality and the power to change things-- often dramatically. Like a canvas, fabric can take color, with the added bonus of being able to wear it, sit on it or in the case of a pillow, throw it across the room. The more unique, the better for me." 

--Nancy Clusiau | Nancy Clusiau | www.customsantafe.com

"Without the guidance of the heart, the hands and mind are ronin, or master-less samurai. Dangerous, fickle, not to be trusted. Certainly not to be entrusted with the great works that life demands. Do our masters, whoever they are, value the fruits of our hearts? Or only the products of our hands and minds? What is life without heart? How many choose this path? Why? How many feel they have no choice but to abandon their hearts' desires? If art and heart are the same, what moment of life is heartless? If my heart, mind and hands inspire feeling in others, that's the greatest success I could hope for as an artist." 

--Steve Dulfer | www.dulfermetal.us