Comments on: The Spider Carpet and Some Thoughts About Passion http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/24/the-spider-carpet-and-some-thoughts-about-passion/ A Daily Journal of a Permanent Resident of Paradise Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:58:40 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steve Goodheart http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/24/the-spider-carpet-and-some-thoughts-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-2854 Steve Goodheart Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:06 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6461#comment-2854 Well said, mate, well said! I'm still boggled...I'm sending your post around to friends, too. Steve Well said, mate, well said!

I’m still boggled…I’m sending your post around to friends, too.

Steve

]]> By: MadDog http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/24/the-spider-carpet-and-some-thoughts-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-2851 MadDog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:01:31 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6461#comment-2851 You know, Steven, as I was writing that I also was thinking of the Renaissance when the rich were falling all over themselves to get artisans to create beautiful things. They're all long dead, but the beauty lives on. Except for the rare commissioned piece, it's not that way today. The whole concept of the spider carpet makes me want to sit back and sip a single-malt while I visualise it for a while in my head. The whole thing would have been ruined if the spiders had to die for it. None of them were volunteers. You know, Steven, as I was writing that I also was thinking of the Renaissance when the rich were falling all over themselves to get artisans to create beautiful things. They’re all long dead, but the beauty lives on. Except for the rare commissioned piece, it’s not that way today.

The whole concept of the spider carpet makes me want to sit back and sip a single-malt while I visualise it for a while in my head. The whole thing would have been ruined if the spiders had to die for it. None of them were volunteers.

]]> By: Steve Goodheart http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2009/11/24/the-spider-carpet-and-some-thoughts-about-passion/comment-page-1/#comment-2850 Steve Goodheart Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:47:05 +0000 http://www.messersmith.name/wordpress/?p=6461#comment-2850 Brilliant, MadDog! I think you totally nailed it with your concluding observations. However the art or amazing creation came about—for money, for a cause, for oneself, or as worship, a for a muse, or whatever—we are blessed every time the extraordinary breaks through the veil of the ordinary. Reading what you said, I couldn't help thinking of all the Renaissance art that was created "for money"—and yet, for so much more. The spider textile is simply mind-boggling, and I was glad to hear the spiders weren't harmed, which is not the case with silkworms, alas. Those other links are great, too. Thanks! Brilliant, MadDog! I think you totally nailed it with your concluding observations. However the art or amazing creation came about—for money, for a cause, for oneself, or as worship, a for a muse, or whatever—we are blessed every time the extraordinary breaks through the veil of the ordinary.

Reading what you said, I couldn’t help thinking of all the Renaissance art that was created “for money”—and yet, for so much more.

The spider textile is simply mind-boggling, and I was glad to hear the spiders weren’t harmed, which is not the case with silkworms, alas. Those other links are great, too.

Thanks!

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