Home

There is a series of documentaries that Kevin and I had discovered called “Home” and the one today was about a home in Mexico.  And there was actually quite a number of people that lived in this studio.

Creativity was the order of the day in whatever way you found best to.  There was a younger boy who could do 3D models on his printer.  The father (I think) could understand it more once he had seen how it worked and that it could help him in the work he did.

There was a sculptor and textile artist and there was a library with many books in it that they changed to being available to people outside the studio.  There was also a woman that weaved.  And also a younger girl who was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said she didn’t know.  But they showed her blending foods together and creating beauty with food.  She liked to see what the textures and colours were like together.

And I was saying to Kevin that actually during the Renaissance or around that period, people went to study from someone who was expert in what they wanted to do.  Then they became journeymen and after that became masters themselves who then got apprentices to study under them and so on and so on.  Leonardo de Vinci (for example) and Michelanglo certainly did.  

If you want to think further back, William the Conqueror came to take the throne to the English Crown and his wife Matilda saw it as her duty to immortalise it in the Beaux Tapestry for the world to know.  Of course she didn’t do it alone!  All her ladies would have joined in with her to create it.

So life wasn’t lived alone or anything created alone.  It was done in conjunction with others.  Now we all have our own separate houses and bedrooms etc, but it’s not how it was before.

Learning from each other is great and a fantastic thing to do.  Personally I wouldn’t like living with a large number of people and I think Johnathan and Kevin would be against the idea even more than I would!  But that’s ok.