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Comment by alice simpson on December 22, 2011 at 1:56pm

Many of us, men AND women, struggle with “hungers,” yearnings for pleasures be it food, love, possessions, control, power. Hunger, in all its metaphorical forms, is part of our personal  and public conversation.  With diet as a way of life for many in our culture and the obsession with losing the curves that make us female, we've been taught that one should ‘Eat to Live.’  We've forgotten that  from the 18th through the early 20th Century, at a time when food was scarce and many went hungry, being fat was a sign of health, prosperity and an attraction.

Comment by 2Roses on October 1, 2011 at 11:24am

As one of those evil marketing people who are often referenced as the perpetrators of all social ills (I'm a white male too!) I've made a career of studying human behavior and motivation. These seven vices have been identified long ago as root underlying drivers of behavior. Each one, by the way, also has a corresponding positive driver attribute. Ying-Yang as our Chinese friends would say.

Anything, including fundamentally positive things, taken to excess becomes a vice. Balance in all things, our Buddhist friends would say.

Dauvit, there are plenty of people in this world who devoutly believe that what we all do here on Crafthouse is a vice. As makers, jewelry makers in particular, they see us as the very personification of pointless consumerism.

 

 

Comment by Heidemarie Herb on October 1, 2011 at 9:44am

Hi Justified, yes, we agree :) !!!! It doesen't matter how we call it, "way of life" or "lifestyle" ( lifestyle transl. in italian is "stile di vita" ) but this is the point of the exhibition ;). Hope to see some of your work for the participatinon, your's Heidemarie & Gigi

Comment by The Justified Sinner on September 30, 2011 at 2:20pm

I think that "lifestyle" is a vice, perhaps the vice.

"Lifestyle" is a commodification of "way of life" and is directly antithetical to creativity - no matter how the marketing people dress it up - being about pointless consumption, not construction.

Perhaps "lifestyle" is the ur-vice of the century, encompassing as it does, five (perhaps six) of the seven of Dante's vices...