Hana yori dango? Rice cakes over flowers?

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(10/02/12) Hana yori dango? Rice cakes over flowers?

Rice cakes over flowers? Nutrition or beauty?
花よりだんご？栄養か美しい文？

This week, during each class I ask which people would rather do: eat rice cakes or watch flowers. It is a difficult question. Nutrition or design? I think it comes down to flavor.

Without beauty, in its many forms, food is not delicious and it is rarely satisfying.
But, without nutrition or context, design is shallow, and seems almost meaningless.

Some people claim that useless art is more valuable and more pure than useful art or "craft." Perhaps, some people believe that flowers are only beautiful if they are not useful.

But I wonder if their "purity" and their "uselessness" is actually used? If someone uses a flower for its value as a "useless" status object, they are still using a flower.

As long as art and craft are kept separate, isn't so much food eaten without appreciation and don't so many flowers wither alone?

Although not all plants can be eaten, the messages they might carry may be just as flavorful! Perhaps, this added spice of design, is, today, one thing that this flower city has to offer.


Rice cakes over flowers? Nutrition or beauty?
花よりだんご？栄養か美しい文？

今週、毎授業一つの特別の質問を聞いている：どちの方がやりたいですか？おだんごを食べるかお花を見る？難し質問だと思います。材料的な栄養かきれいな華やかなデザイン？わからないだけど多分、味は大切だと思います。

美しく事がなくて食べ物はあまり美味しくないだと思います。満足もあまり出来ていません。
だけど、栄養がなくて文脈がなくてデザインの事はあさくないですか？

無駄のアートはもと貴重と思ている人がいるだけど。その考え方で無駄アートはもと純粋の感じですねー使いやすいクラフトより。多分、無駄花だけは美しい花と思っている人もいるかもしれません。

だけど純粋と言う花もは使えられた花かな？人はそゆ無駄花をえらいになるように使ったら人は花を使っていますね。

アートとクラフトが別れば食事をたべると味わっていないじゃないですか？。アートとクラフトが別ればお花は寂しくて枯れていませんか？

全部お植物を食べ物じゃないけど多分持ている語りは味があるかもしれませんね！多分、現代にそゆデザインの薬味はこの花街の作品ですね。