my bad

for not contextualizing hannah arendt's remark.

she was a german thinker and also a jew during world war two.

it is not difficult to imagine the intellectual and emotional  turmoil she lived through in those years and afterwards  with the findings and the trials. 

to form a better opinion  i reccomend   eichmann in jerusalem a report on the banality of evil.

more of sennet:

"Craftsmanship names an enduring basic human principle the desire to do a job well done for its own sake....
the craftsman often faces conflicting objective standards of excellence; the desire to do something well for its own sake can be impaired by competitive pressure, by frustration or by obsession.....
every good craftsman conducts a dialog between concrete practices and thinking; this dialogue evolves into sustaining habits, and these habits establish a rhythm between problem solving and problem finding.."

 words to be thought and re thought. and what's fascinating is that  he  goes beyond manual labor and includes  the code writer, the cook, the good parent, the doctor.....

and humbly sampling on the knitting machine. learning to hang, twist and move stitches.



neki desu

decorashon kekei

today for the first time in 50 years we woke up with no fear.

sorry for the lack of title, video doesn't let me do it.
the japanese says something like jita chan's art and song   -decoration keki.
 good weekend to all. peace.
neki desu

thinking about doing

people who make things don't understand what they're doing.

this was hannah arendt, not me. but is it always like that or just sometimes? (this is me not she.)

for her, the mind engages once labor is done.

for richard sennet there's another view in which thinking and feeling are contained within the process of making and that the process of making reveals to us things about ourselves.

i'm reading richard sennet's the craftsman, still on the prologue where he talks about his teacher, hannah arendt, and her unrest about the los alamos/manhattan project. it's that kind of read where you need a set of colored pencils to underline what strikes you in color coded fashion. it is one of the most exciting reads i've read in a long time, and i'm just on page 8 underlining like a fiend and stopping to think about what i read.

 i started the scarf in the image some years ago, during the failed ai vat era. folded and dyed it three times with blahh results. on monday i looked for it and decided to give it a dunk in the vat i was running as a prize for having finished the weaving. then re folded and re dunked it twice on tuesday. what i saw when i unfolded it this morning  pleased me.

so according to sennet what  can the shibori scarf above teach me about myself? and the image of it which  i created?

i'll be discussing sennet here for a long time i'm warning you.

neki desu