> [!SUMMARY] Summary > Asian approaches to craft differ in the role of the self in making. For writers such as [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[Bernard Leach]] and [[Yanagi Sōetsu]], the true craftsperson surrendered him or herself to the making process. This was a way of transcending the limiting nature of self-conscious with its distractions of pride and shame. By contrast, people such as [[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay]] and [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]] felt it to be important that the marking process reflect the sense of self. Craft traditions differ sharply on whether the self belongs in the making process. Gandhi, Bernard Leach and Yanagi Sōetsu argued for surrender: the true craftsperson sets self-consciousness aside, escaping the pride and shame that come with it, letting the work move through them rather than from them. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Tagore took the opposite view, treating the making process as a place where the self should be present and expressed. The question this raises for craft today is whether skill is a discipline of letting go or a vehicle for individual voice, and different Asian traditions have answered it in opposite directions. [[Questions]]