The Grit and The Glamour
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Craft is difficult and messy. It comes with sore fingers and smashed pots. Incremental progress is achieved through painful effort and painstaking practice. To be a craftsperson requires self-belief and modesty, courage and humility. Craft is simultaneously rigorous and mundane and, although it involves a human, the material and the process is really in charge. Craft asks us to embrace the unknown and have faith in an unknowable outcome. It is precisely this grit that makes craft glamorous, compelling, seductive, remarkable. Craft is a powerful expression of the grit and the glamour of humanity, laid bare, sometimes lovely, always intriguing.
The Grit and The Glamour is also about Scotland. For us, it captures something ineffable – those strange contradictions and confluences that lie beneath the surface of a cultural identity promoted in tourism campaigns. Scotland is a progressive country because it embraces friction; it is comfortable being two things at once. Cheeky and fierce. Sprawling and dramatic. Sentimental and bureaucratic. Heart in the past and hope for the future. The Grit and The Glamour speaks about elements and landscape, people and food, architecture and attitude, myth and mood. It is a profound statement and a throwaway line.
What matters is that we feel something.
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