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The word Energy was hard to convey to the weathered man under a bridge in Kowloon. He seemed to understand, helped me choose a carved stone Chop with a tortoise and a fish carved at the top. He had hundreds on the table between us, that he’d carved and inserted into perfectly made fitted boxes in all different colors, his table and workbench was among dozens of others, all carving in the same tradition. An ancient market for making an ancient mark. When I returned, he tried to explain that he’d used an expression meaning energy, made up of two words. It was 1991, how could I know what it possibly said? I’ve used that mood seal on many hundreds of my artworks, and now on my ceramics. What does it say, you’re wondering? An image search for the words came back as ability and desire. I never knew, but that is what makes up energy in one’s self, right?