Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in.

Terry Tempest Williams
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Artifacts are alive. Each has a voice. They remind us what it means to be human - that it is our nature to survive, to create works of beauty to be resourceful, to be attentive to the world we live in. Some people think that their artifacts are alive and they talk to them.

Others think that they are dead objects and they don’t talk or listen. There is no truth to this idea at all. Artifacts are just tools with voices, each one of them is different from the others.

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