The click – drop nature of our current society, with the related lack of connection that it brings has lead to a change in our relationship with the every day objects we use.

If you can simply pick something off a shelf, or have it delivered to your door within 24 hours, one generally has no idea about the processes involved in that thing.

Take, for example, a coat hook. Not too challenging for a blacksmith to make, it requires a length of bar, a couple of tools and a forge. The process of heating, bending, punching and cleaning up is pretty straight forward, but takes time and experience to carry out, and hence the smith will change a reasonable sum for the hook. In return for which you have a handmade object that will last you a lifetime, and that you have a connection with.

Or, you could go online, choose one that was likely made somewhere around the world, shipped to a warehouse, loaded into shelves, sorted by a minumum wage human you’ll never meet, and finally delivered to your door by a stressed person in a white or grey van.

One, the costs are direct to you, the second the costs are hidden in the name of convenience.

The same could be applied to a T shirt, underwear, a pair of cheap shoes. Any item that is low cost enough to be considered a replaceable commodity.

Now.