Spoons
Spoons are used by every human culture in the world.
The first idea of a spoon was constructed using shells latched onto sticks.
They are a mirror to their surrounding culture to look at the particular form that the spoon takes, and what that tells us about the kind of food that a particular culture likes to eat.
One of the oldest spoons preserved in a museum is believed to be a pair made from mammoth ivory found in the Palaeolithic site of Ardaevo in Russia, discovered in the 1940’s. The spoons are believed to be 21,000 years old.
One of the most ancient spoons found in Egypt 1000BC were quite ornate , made out of ivory or slate. Used primarily for ritualistic purposes. The shape and use of a spoon was more like we would use a small bowl or vessel to mix something such as kohl for the eyes or medicines. So a spoon then had more of a rim than a handle. Size made it a spoon.
The Welsh lovespoon has been a symbol of love for centuries, usually carved from wood as a devotional piece hand crafted and given as a token of love and affection.
The puritan spoons were very plain and solid pieces of silver with an egg shaped bowl and a very flat plain handle.
In 1660 Charles the second came back to the throne after the ‘commonwealth’. He had been in the court of France where they had a very particular type of spoon called a trefid. Almost overnight it became the dominant shape. A deep oval that is still recognised today. The handle was finished in the ‘three cleft shape’ hence the name.
Some spoons were used in the same way as a vessel. For mixing substances in small quantities. Kohl for eyes in Egypt. Medicines
vessels that are never empty, the ancients believed that the plant kingdom used invisible earth energies to grow. Pulling the necessary energies from the air and from all of nature.
The spoon is a symbol of sustenance and support. Annapurna is the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment, the wife of Lord Shiva. She was supposed to feed the world. ‘Anna’ in Hindi signifies food whereas ‘Purna’ implies ‘complete’.
It is also a powerful allegory for people suffering from chronic illness as a measure of energy.
A positive narrative.
nature and the natural world is shells and sticks. Nurture is to get food into your mouth or the mouths of others but to nourish is to feed yourself and others not only food but all we need and want. To give love. To have a mechanism to accept love. To inspire and be inspired, To feed ourselves and others.
I have made spoons. They are not a usual shape or made out of an acceptable material but they are made for a purpose.
To enable us to nurture. To hold love and gratitude and understanding, to be able to share it. To enable us to forgive.
To offer it. To taste it. To accept it. To understand.
To explore how we share all the goodness that is around us and be able to recognise it and heap it onto whoever needs it most. Or to help ourselves whenever we feel the need.
Acts of service. This is how I was shown love by acts of service.
Nourishment is taken. The value of nourishment is in the receiving.
Are these spoons for me ? Creating my own healing. Believing that there is more good in the world than evil.
They are everywhere in humanity. Reserves /reservoirs of kindness. Acts of heroism and selflessness. In the smallest acts of kindness. All contribute to the goodness that is stored. NATURE NURTURE NOURISH
If we can identify the vessel, the store of all we need, we can help ourselves, we can also help others to find it or even point out that it exists!
Traditional meaning
‘Someone was here’
‘You are on the right path’
‘Someone has gone before’
Mark of respect/ memory of a loved one.
Peoples of the Arctic region.
Spoons are used by every human culture in the world.
The first idea of a spoon was constructed using shells latched onto sticks.
They are a mirror to their surrounding culture to look at the particular form that the spoon takes, and what that tells us about the kind of food that a particular culture likes to eat.
One of the oldest spoons preserved in a museum is believed to be a pair made from mammoth ivory found in the Palaeolithic site of Ardaevo in Russia, discovered in the 1940’s. The spoons are believed to be 21,000 years old.
One of the most ancient spoons found in Egypt 1000BC were quite ornate , made out of ivory or slate. Used primarily for ritualistic purposes. The shape and use of a spoon was more like we would use a small bowl or vessel to mix something such as kohl for the eyes or medicines. So a spoon then had more of a rim than a handle. Size made it a spoon.
The Welsh lovespoon has been a symbol of love for centuries, usually carved from wood as a devotional piece hand crafted and given as a token of love and affection.
The puritan spoons were very plain and solid pieces of silver with an egg shaped bowl and a very flat plain handle.
In 1660 Charles the second came back to the throne after the ‘commonwealth’. He had been in the court of France where they had a very particular type of spoon called a trefid. Almost overnight it became the dominant shape. A deep oval that is still recognised today. The handle was finished in the ‘three cleft shape’ hence the name.
Some spoons were used in the same way as a vessel. For mixing substances in small quantities. Kohl for eyes in Egypt. Medicines
vessels that are never empty, the ancients believed that the plant kingdom used invisible earth energies to grow. Pulling the necessary energies from the air and from all of nature.
The spoon is a symbol of sustenance and support. Annapurna is the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment, the wife of Lord Shiva. She was supposed to feed the world. ‘Anna’ in Hindi signifies food whereas ‘Purna’ implies ‘complete’.
It is also a powerful allegory for people suffering from chronic illness as a measure of energy.
A positive narrative.
nature and the natural world is shells and sticks. Nurture is to get food into your mouth or the mouths of others but to nourish is to feed yourself and others not only food but all we need and want. To give love. To have a mechanism to accept love. To inspire and be inspired, To feed ourselves and others.
I have made spoons. They are not a usual shape or made out of an acceptable material but they are made for a purpose.
To enable us to nurture. To hold love and gratitude and understanding, to be able to share it. To enable us to forgive.
To offer it. To taste it. To accept it. To understand.
To explore how we share all the goodness that is around us and be able to recognise it and heap it onto whoever needs it most. Or to help ourselves whenever we feel the need.
Acts of service. This is how I was shown love by acts of service.
Nourishment is taken. The value of nourishment is in the receiving.
Are these spoons for me ? Creating my own healing. Believing that there is more good in the world than evil.
They are everywhere in humanity. Reserves /reservoirs of kindness. Acts of heroism and selflessness. In the smallest acts of kindness. All contribute to the goodness that is stored. NATURE NURTURE NOURISH
If we can identify the vessel, the store of all we need, we can help ourselves, we can also help others to find it or even point out that it exists!
Traditional meaning
‘Someone was here’
‘You are on the right path’
‘Someone has gone before’
Mark of respect/ memory of a loved one.
Peoples of the Arctic region.