blockbuild vs carving
May. 26th, 2012 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anansi133What I love about Legos and MicroRax and Erector sets is how few tools you need to build with them. They are purely an additive process- which also makes them perfect for collecting.
But whole schools of building depend on the removal of material: whittling, stone carving, earth-moving, dugout canoes, even papercraft...
...and there's a different sort of creativity in building by subtraction.
I need to think about this when I'm trying to improve my diet, exercise more, lose weight- I need to wear this body more gracefully than I have been. It's not as resilient as it was.
In the same way, my toybox/tool chest needs to get smaller and more specific. Choosing what not to put in it, that's a choice I have little practice with.
But whole schools of building depend on the removal of material: whittling, stone carving, earth-moving, dugout canoes, even papercraft...
...and there's a different sort of creativity in building by subtraction.
I need to think about this when I'm trying to improve my diet, exercise more, lose weight- I need to wear this body more gracefully than I have been. It's not as resilient as it was.
In the same way, my toybox/tool chest needs to get smaller and more specific. Choosing what not to put in it, that's a choice I have little practice with.
