Lacquerware Painter of Fuzhou

✦ Your Soul Summary ✦

You applied lacquer to wooden vessels in a workshop in Fuzhou, layer after patient layer, each requiring days of drying before the next could be added. A finished piece required forty or more coats, and the work moved at the pace of the material, not of human impatience. You had learned to think while your hands worked: some of your clearest thinking happened over the drying tables, the slow process of accumulation teaching you something about how understanding itself worked.