When renovating, every single element is symbolic, at least for us. I told my guys today, we are using that particular wood because it references the people who grew up here, and the house itself, but also our story of running an art community down the street for seven years.
We are using copper on that part because it represents solidity but and already not yet state to the things we’ve personally birthed.
Each design element teaches!
If we are not driven just by money and profit, we can help mend the symbols on our lands or this earth! That’s my prayer anyways, in the projects I get blessed to participate in! Let’s help mend the earth by healing the symbols as we go. And doing our two chapters to bring the story out which is already being told!
Let’s help mend the world, by mending the symbols!
I was talking to a homeless friend last night, and he said to me: you don’t have to have lots of money to make an authentic expression. Smart fellow. His cart and the tree he sleeps beneath mean something specific in his story.
It doesn’t take money or resources to make an honest and connected symbolic authentic expression of identity!
Everything tells a story. Books are known by their covers as well as their content.
Mending and tending the earth and whatever domains we are given also includes tending the symbolic! Symbols echo and flow from true identity, and also teach and reminds us of who we are! That’s why design still matters.