A's point - Wednesday evening (I nearly forgot) - that in making, shaping, the pot or painting or poem, the maker is shaped & changed. Each act of making is a process of learning (what can or can't be done). Thus each object stands as testament. The maker/ artist transformed in a reciprocal relation to the object. As with Heraclitean flux, the myth of Pygmalion harbours a double secret. The artist him/herself as material for fashioning. "It's alive!" is as much as to say "I'm alive!".