In the living and dying exhibition at The British Museum there are artefacts from all over the world that show how people think about life....
What would you collect to symbolise how you think about life??
Quilts, i think quilts hold so much history and stories. Everybody has a favourite blanket, throw or quilt from when they were young or even when they are old, one that they relate to certain memories of their lives or certain people. I still have my 'cwtchy' blanket in my mums cupboard. Its something you can touch and feel close to somebody by smell and comfort. They always have a feeling of warmth and home.
The Quilts exhibition at the V&A was when i really truly fell in love with quilts and the narrative behind them. They symbolise so much of a certain persons life from their wealth to lack of it and to how they lived their everyday lives. They are an amazing way of gaining information in textiles and history as to how people lived and survived.
I think the symbol is everybody needs warmth, love, family and home in life.
What would you collect to show the difference between your ideas and those of your parents or grandparents??
Lightbulbs. This is a really hard question and at first i thought something to do with technology then i came to the conclusion that the lightbulb has changed in every generation and reflects life well since many many hundreds of years ago the candle was the lightbulb and i think lightbulbs are a good reflection of how we live, when my great grand children are around im sure we wont even have lightbulbs when during my time we only have to pay 10p for an eco bulb.
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