What Korem Looks For In A House

The Corner is someone who gives you a full hour. To prepare, to adjust, to tell you where it comes from and why it takes the time it takes.

It is a hand that stops at the right moment, a grain your fingertips recognise, a colour that never comes out the same way twice, a sound you hear when it is done well. It is a craft that cannot be hurried, and people who have never tried to hurry it.

The next day something of it remains: a taste on the tongue, a scent on the hands, an object set down on a table. It is slow, it is rare, and it is noticed.