But inasmuch as the small farm societies of the future will be peasant societies I think they’ll be ‘reconstituted’ peasant societies., rebuilding themselves out of the declining structures of an earlier economic system in the absence of an ‘authentic’ prior peasant tradition – albeit, I confess, in a very different historical situation.
A recent exhibition, WONDERLUMP, prompts a look at ceramics in Aotearoa from their early earthy humility to the playful imperfections of the ‘millennial aesthetic’.