produce a three-dimensional object that is particularly gratifying to handle. use any material that works.

my process began in the field. i spent considerable time simply deliberately feeling as many objects as possible. within a few hours, my hands became hypersensitive, similar to the feeling when you clinch your teeth together as hard as possible and feel the urge to clinch harder still. only further grasping eased the annoyance of not exerting my hands' muscles. i became fixated on the need for leverage-- the sort of resistance one experiences from a sturdy lever or a cane pressed firmly into the ground.

i arrived at a design that compiled this field research and some clay study. i originally intended to secure the aluminum to a firm base, allowing one to achieve the leverage previously mentioned. however, while walking home after machining the bulbous end, i found myself unable to stop twisting and forcing the blub into one hand, driven by the other. i found this added "control" extremely satisfying and thus decided to include the wooden handle.