How do we choose our specific material, our means of communication? “Accidentally.” Something speaks to us, a sound, a touch, hardness or softness, it catches us and asks to be formed. We are finding our language, and as we go along, we learn to obey their rules and their limits…...Not listening to it ends in failure…What I am trying to get across is that material is a means of communication.”

 - Anni Albers, Material as Metaphor, 1982