"The spirit of the original endures"

Ron McClellan, art design director for Hancher Auditorium, began posting accounts on his Hancher blog as the waters started to rise. Today he writes about hearing that water had infiltrated the auditorium itself, adding:

"I was reading an article today about the famous American woodworker and furniture maker George Nakashima. His philosophy had to do with giving trees a second life when he used the wood to make furniture by understanding how the wood grew and when cut how to make it the most beautiful. He said that "we must consistently remember the eternal in all that we do"---that the form may change but the spirit endures.

You know how when you are in the middle of something and it seems like everything you see relates to what you are experiencing? I read this and it seemed like it did relate to this current moment. We have a new form of our work at hand and the spirit of the original endures."