Collective Spirit
May. 14th, 2012 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anteros_lmcRemember The Boat Project I posted about recently? Well the boat was launched last week and she has been named Collective Spirit. There's a little article about the launch on the bbc website here along with a rather touching little film of people talking about the memories associated with the artefacts they donated to the project.
The clothes peg is a memento of someone’s mother who clipped all her important documents together with pegs before she died, a draughtsman donated his ruler which became obsolete when he started using computers, the hockey stick came from an elderly lady who played sport all her life, another woman donated part of a table that had belonged to her father who was a Marine, there's a fragment of a chicken coop built as a family project and the handle of a wooden spoon that someone's mother in law used to stir custard for 40 years!
I love the importance and insignificance of these memories and the fact that they have come together to create such a beautiful thing :)
The clothes peg is a memento of someone’s mother who clipped all her important documents together with pegs before she died, a draughtsman donated his ruler which became obsolete when he started using computers, the hockey stick came from an elderly lady who played sport all her life, another woman donated part of a table that had belonged to her father who was a Marine, there's a fragment of a chicken coop built as a family project and the handle of a wooden spoon that someone's mother in law used to stir custard for 40 years!
I love the importance and insignificance of these memories and the fact that they have come together to create such a beautiful thing :)
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Date: 2012-05-14 02:51 pm (UTC)Thanks for posting!
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Date: 2012-05-15 10:12 pm (UTC)Inside him, an infinity of thoughts and experiences that we will never know. Gone now, no matter how intrepid our historians are.
And that piece of wood. Thank of all the hands that have been on it, starting with the guy who took it from some innocent tree!
And now she floats, again.
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