“The hand created speaks to the intuition of beauty, the conversation between the gut and the brain that says yes, this is who I am, this is what I believe and feel.”
NOURISH | Carl Barnett
In a world of quick ship and quickly made it is refreshing to experience the hand created: objects of art and speciality designed furniture. It is the hand created and the creative mind that brings a certain depth to living our contemporary lives. A history of traditions that will never be forgotten or overshadowed by the quick and throwaway, as they reference profoundly to where we’ve come and to who we are intrinsically. The hand created speaks to the intuition of beauty, the conversation between the gut and the brain that says yes, this is who I am, this is what I believe and feel.
NOURISH | Kathryn Robinson-Millen
“The beauty of the hand created separates us for a moment from the trials and errors of daily life.”
NOURISH | Kathryn Robinson-Millen | Liadain Warwick Smith
We are each, the manifestation of beauty, born from the stars and burdened by the trials of being human. It is beauty that soothes our ills, the salve that makes us better, or at least makes us feel as if, better. The beauty of the hand created separates us for a moment from the trials and errors of daily life. It’s the comma in the rambling sentence, the calming breath and cool breeze of long Summer days. Beauty has no agenda, though politics and social opinion attempts to sway our view, it is in the eye of the beholder, in the passion of the believer and doer. The beauty of the hand created is universal as nature and the human condition itself.
NOURISH | studiovoll
“Beauty and the natural world are interwoven as is life and death, decay and the bursting of Springs floral blooms.”
NOURISH | studiovoll
The use of natural materials in a created object takes beauty to a deeper level, a psychological and physical realm of who we are, separate from the doctrines of social identity. It is the natural world that makes us who we are in the bigger picture of the circle of life, our connection to sentient and non sentient beings, to grass, flowers and the trees with which we share oxygen. Beauty and the natural world are interwoven as is life and death, decay and the bursting of Spring’s floral blooms. The use of natural materials in crafted work penetrates with every touch and casual view, our psyche of historic entanglements, lying deep within our cells and porous bones.
NOURISH | SENTIENT
“The writer Henry David Thoreau often wrote of walking in nature, the connection between ourselves and trees, floral scents that move from west to east and birds that sing their existence in a canopy of trees.”
The writer Henry David Thoreau often wrote of walking in nature, the connection between ourselves and trees, floral scents that move from west to east and birds that sing their existence in a canopy of trees. He wrote that there is nothing better than nature, its separateness from politics, gossip and the whim of human habit. He knew so well our place within the natural world, felt it deep enough to write it down for our consumption and hopeful understanding. He knew well of where we’ve come and the perils of being human, and possibly where we’re heading. For him, beauty and the natural world resonated far deeper than we in our fast paced world might ever appreciate, as we struggle to save nature and find the beauty within ourselves.
NOURISH | Andy Graves
The appreciation of beauty is a reflection of oneself, how we wish to live and the mindset we choose to perpetuate, a harmony of mind, body, nature and living life: the ease of beauty, the humbling of the hand created.