There's a difference between Process and Procedure: Process being the more fundamental and creative - the God separating light from darkness sort of thing; and Procedure having to do with the step-by-step description of materials and methods for getting from Creation in concept to the Garden of Eden in fact.

Process is where the magic resides - But the labor toward achievement is essential to art, and few are willing to make the effort.

Besides effort, or in neat counterbalance to it, rests "receptivity," or the non-directed tranquillity of an alert mind. In this state of being, a seed germinates, the spark falls, an idea appears.

Sculpture, the fumbling with form, adds an element to this balance of work and rest: physical stuff, tangible matter.

Many has been the time when I hatched a brilliant idea and rushed to my studio bench, eager to give it form - only to find, within a few strokes or shapings, that the idea, for all its apparent intellectual vitality, was lifeless once brought into actuality through clay or wood.

So there you have it, as far as Process goes: labor, surrender, and the glory of the physical world, Amen.