Are you an artisan
The further removed a Source Idea is from the experience of those accessing or consuming the product or service created by the Source Idea, the more the product or service depreciates in value.
This is true for food production as well. When we decouple our experience of the Source of our food, we strip an essential ingredient from the food. Relationship. Food consumed far from Source is missing the alchemy of relationship, which adds a type of nutrition hard to measure.
When we make products or services to service a consumer society where the product or service is abstracted and decoupled so far from the Source of its design, the item or service becomes a facsimile of the original idea, and as such loses the majority of its value immediately on the transaction being completed.
When an artist sells their art to someone who appreciates the art, the value can only increase, because the value is not only in the thing/or service but in the exchange and the multi-dimensional nature of the relationship in the exchange. It is a first-person experience.
Even if we share the great art in a gallery, where people pay an entrance fee to have the experience of the art, the value is in the first-person experience of the art.
This is the issue with scaling art and artisan products and services.
Knowing this, we might consider our work. If we treasure the relational alchemy of our art, then how do we create viability without scaling?
Are you an artisan? Or do you have a product or service that you want abstracted and decoupled?
The business model for both is different.
Photo Taken March 6th 2023
