Andreas Borutta
Sun, 04 Feb 2001 02:27:30 -0800
Thomas Theisinger wrote:
> Basteln has no negative meaning at all.
Veto!
Well, I could only speak for myself.
For me the word "basteln" has the connotation "follow an instruction".
It sounds like reproducing things without own thoughts, investigation
and accumulation of knowledge.
May be I am strongly influenced by all these boring and stupid
instructions one could find in magazines called "do it yourself".
Or in Christmas time these "bastel"pages in many magazines.
Frankly speaking I hate them, because they do not teach anything.
They are the dead of creativity.
So I prefer simple phrasings like "to build something".
In my opinion you do not need two words for activies - one for "done
by proffessionals", who make a living with it, and another for "done
by non-proffessional".
The only point to distinguish, is the know-how (of head and hand) and
the passion.
And let me add a short quote of James Krenov[1], an american
woodworker which I highly esteem:
| The basic change in the last, let us say, ten years is that a large
| part of craftwork has evolved from being a profession - that is, a
| way of /making/ a living - to /being/ a way of living. More and more
| people are taking up crafts because they feel a need for intimate
| contact with a material; it provides certain inner satisfactions.
Greetings from snowcovered Berlin, Andreas
[1] of the book "The impractical cabinetmaker", 1993, Sterling
Publishing, p. 9
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