Race day at the woodshop
wood, and there is the bike, and both challenge Shane Kline. Both provide relief, give him focus, require concentration. Both are solitary, in their way – pursuits into which he can disappear. In both, an inanimate object feels animate, and there’s a relationship – he pushes the bike and the road, and they push back. The wood? ‘I let it tell me what it wants to become,’ he says.
