Work as an Expression of Identity

I was again watching one of my favorite videocasts – this time from Etsy.com's weekly video.

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On October 12, Etsy artist couple Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan share what their work in creating lightexture means to them.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes:

"It's a lot of fun to work together. It's a meeting ground where we both come with our strength or understandings and we can find something new and build off of eachother's knowledge and ways of working."

"It's something that comes from my mind and then moves into the physical realm."

"Nature is working all the time. The ants are working and the bees are working. And work is a sort of a movement that naturally happens. Work is what we do to bring out what we have inside into a material place. It's basically just a way of understanding yourself and communicating that to the world. "

 

Do you see work as a necessary evil or an opportunity to bring something you have inside into the physical realm? Have you found someone with whom you can achieve this sort of expressive work?