Today artists use many tools to accomplish their masterpieces. These tools make art more accessible and more importantly more elaborate or “Hi-tech”, but what is left when the tools are stripped away? It is almost hard to imagine a world without our sewing machines, and our airbrush cans, and even our nifty stick-to-anything adhesive, but before all those items there was art.
Basket weaving dates back 8000 years and has had a fascinating effect on most of the world. The baskets are handmade using materials like pine needles, tree bark, and long grasses. There were and still are many tribes throughout the world who have the tradition of basket-weaving, and what is more interesting is that although tribes have never been in contact with one another the designs are still standard and similar. Patterns found in baskets in one area of the world, can also be found in a completely different tribe and culture.
The fact that these designs are able to appear and reappear in different cultures without any special tools or technology is quite astonishing. This fact really shows the crutch we fall on when it comes to modern artistry and technology. The human mind works relatively the same no matter the background. Our technology has helped to improve on our methods and the time it takes to make art, but it also seems that we have lost something in the technology. We have lost the connection with the natural world, and the phenomenon of natural human tendency. We have strayed away from common thought, in a constant battle to be the most inventive, new, and abstract.
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