Impermanence
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Today we bring you intimacy in texture and form. Think of the smooth metal, and of your fingertips tracing these curves within curves.
Consider, too, the symbolic weight of the spoon, and the hundreds of mouths it might have touched. An object often finds its clearest elegance in its function; a spoon’s very purpose is to feed, to nourish. There is a suggestion of warmth. We nourish ourselves; we nourish others. We are fed as infants, before we learn to feed ourselves; and then we are cared for again when we grow old. The circle completes, if we are so lucky.
In the patina on the spoon, and in the broken shell, its edges worn smooth by sand and wind — the years have taken their toll. Everything must change; nothing is spared. Perhaps we can be nourished by this gentle truth, too, and by the mercy within it.
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