Certainly there was a changing of the guard – God, Pope and Death are sticking around .. or are they?
…. and how will this cast haunt our lives and our world?
What do I see?
How is my view of the world distorted?
What’s it distorted by?
How is my view different from yours?
Which view is “right”?
How would I know?
Is there an ‘undistorted’ view? … what would that look like?
Responses to Aldi value
Why do we build empires? What values are they based on?
… and ultimately they collapse
Money doesn’t make sense for measuring value but it’s the lens society uses..
And the power of an arbitrary £ symbol determines our place….
and some levels on, we still don’t know “Did the Vikings matter?”
Aldi customers drawing what they value
The Larks and Ravens ran a Big Draw event in the Aldi Store in Bristol. We invited customers shopping that day to “draw what you value” and Aldi were kind enough to let us draw on their windows which proved an attraction in itself and made the results more visually engaging from both within and without the store.
I counted over 70 different values reflected by people’s wildly varied drawings -here’s a sample….
Relationships – love, family, children, friends, partners, hugs, happy home
Activities – walking, cycling, helping others, exercise, dancing, music, skate parks
Personal – health, an anxiety-free head, sleeping, being happy, being warm
Social structures– NHS, Southmead Hospital, Air Ambulance Service, homes for everyone
Food – fruit, bananas, bread, chicken, coffee, cake
Environment –bees, trees, flowers, gardens, the world, spiders, sunsets,snowy mountains
Interestingly, there was only one drawing of actual money and very few things you can even buy with money in Aldi or, in fact, anywhere! The anarchic fun of drawing on shop windows for a day is just one example …
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Big Draw Event – 20th October 11-3:30
Aldi Bedminster Store, BS3 1JA
| Thu 20 Oct | 11am – 3:30pm |
Draw what you value! – Drop by and help us create a display of what we value in life.
Larks and Ravens invite you to drop by the Bedminster Aldi store and help us draw and create a display of the things we value most in our different lives.
Stay for 5 minutes or an hour and draw something which represents value for you to add to our display. All ages welcome.
We thank Aldi Bedminster for hosting this event as part of The Big Draw 2016
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Labyrinths of money…
Some bird-eye views…
Reading about a corner shop
So for 25 years a family runs a corner shop. Not necessarily a place for designer gifts or even cheap items.
A convenience, there when you need a pint of milk, a needle and thread, a box of tampons. Or perhaps a constant face in a changing world.
Then the redevelopment.
Would n’t Tescoes be more convenient?
Where is the value?
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A 5 year old’s view
I asked 5 year old Ben what money is. He said it’s just “special paper”. Good answer. And here’s what £10 of “special paper” looks like.
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What’s a poem worth?
On a Larks and Ravens trip in January, we were approached in Manchester Piccadilly station by a homeless young man who had written some poems and wanted to know if he could read one to us in return for some money. He did so. When we asked how much he charged for the reading, he didn’t know but commented that a night in the nearby shelter cost £18.
I’ve been puzzling ever since about what that poem was worth – to him? to us as travellers that day?How do you weigh up the need for a bed and food with the worth of hearing a poem? Can you?
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Baby or iPhone?
I read today that a Chinese couple sold their baby girl for 23,000 Yuan (£2500) so they could buy an iPhone. They didn’t know it was illegal.
If you take out morality, humanity and cultural norms and laws, then at one level this makes perfect rational sense – they didn’t want a baby but they did want an iPhone.
The news reporter is outraged and disgusted but I’m wondering about the differently immoral and inhumane uses of money in our own cultural practices that we barely notice…
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£20 note
So first the blank of an empty piece of paper and a million questions
what exactly is money?
what value has £20?
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More thinking
So where are we now? thinking about money!
drawing out banks
and bankers
and understanding of
what actually is money?
Donation box at Holborn Museum, collecting for a collection?
Lloyd’s ‘Counting House’ Bristol, so what does go on in this temple?
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On the money….
We’ve become both intrigued and baffled by the strange phenomenon of money. So, we have started to explore the deeply embedded myths of value, growth, credit, debt and capitalism that govern our everyday lives.
And Step 1 is to spend a morning drawing in a high street bank…….
Images & Reflections on Space Exploration Exhibition
We would like to thank Jon Phillips of Muen photography for capturing the visual experience of our Space Explorations Exhibition at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol in September. Click here to view the gallery of Jon’s images and a few of our own.
Alison has also written a blog reflecting a psychologist’s view of what we were trying to do and what may or may not have happened as a result.
If you have thoughts and comments about the images or the exhibition, we welcome you to share them via our textwall.
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