The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

Tag: making

  • Resistance Baking

    Resistance Baking

    “Bread-making as a form of activism” – a wide-ranging interview with Marisol Malatesta, baker, artist and teacher.

  • The Burroughs Garret

    The Burroughs Garret

    In The Nature of Gothic, nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin wrote that there is beauty in imperfection, and that ‘the demand for perfection is always a sign of the misunderstanding of the ends of art.’ He also says that we should celebrate visible evidence of workmanship – chips and flaws – as ‘signs of the…