mmm... thanks Mon. This is a pretty interesting topic... Compare/ contrast Modernism- is it basically just a secular form of Shaker? Equally pious, but even more sanctimonious, I think. I dont think you can ever actually eschew decoration when trying to make a pleasing object. Because it resides 'in the eye'. The simplicity itself becomes a decorative feature. Sometimes more garish than tinsel! I love Shaker aesthetic- but if its objective was to be modest-I think it failed-spectacularly! I keep coming back to this topic here; Simplexity, NoAesthetics, Modernism, Shaker hmm should have made this a post really!
shaker craft; so boring its sublime. 
shaker aesthetics
ReplyDeletein paring it back to its simplest form you find god.
similar sense in zen carpentry.
mmm... thanks Mon.
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty interesting topic...
Compare/ contrast Modernism- is it basically just a secular form of Shaker?
Equally pious, but even more sanctimonious, I think.
I dont think you can ever actually eschew decoration when trying to make a pleasing object. Because it resides 'in the eye'. The simplicity itself becomes a decorative feature. Sometimes more garish than tinsel!
I love Shaker aesthetic- but if its objective was to be modest-I think it failed-spectacularly!
I keep coming back to this topic here; Simplexity, NoAesthetics, Modernism, Shaker
hmm should have made this a post really!