humpty dumpty

É uma delícia a instalação do artista americano Mark Moskovitz (FiftyTwoThousand), a Writer’s Cabin: Uma pequena cabana, que foi idealizada e concebida para responder a todas as necessidades pessoais num espaço mínimo.

Foi inspirada principalmente pelo pensamento do “deliberate living” advogado pelo filósofo americano Henry David Thoreau.

“Thoreau’s experiment in deliberate living began in March of 1845. By planting a two-and-a-half acre parcel borrowed from a neighbor who thought it useless, he harvested and sold enough peas, potatoes, corn, beans and turnips to build and to buy food. He purchased an old shanty from an Irish railroad worker and tore it down. He also cut timber from the woods surrounding Walden Pond. From the razed material, he was able to construct his cabin. He used the boards for siding and even salvaged the nails from the original shack.
By mid-summer, the house was ready to inhabit. Thoreau built a fireplace and chimney for heat and cooking. He plastered the inside walls and made sure he could comfortably survive the freezing New England winters, Doing all the work himself and using only native material, the house cost only about twenty-eight dollars to build, less than Thoreau had to pay for a year’s lodging at Harvard.
But the main purpose for his experience was to allow time for writing, thinking, observing nature, and learning the “art of living.”

‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived … I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life …’”

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