Once the world was filled with raisins
Stop motion animation with wooden puppets / 14’05”
Once I had raisins almost only once a year- during the festive season. Then I crossed the seas and woke up every morning to a bowl of muesli in which big drops of raisins would be swimming abundantly.
In the land of abundance, raisins hold an objective value- it is sweet and hence finds a place in sweet savories. In the land of not so much abundance, the raisins are imbibed with sociological values and become a symbol of wealth and status and hence are added not only to sweets but into everything offered to gods and guests.
How could the same thing appear in such different numbers in the two different places? ls abundance not a spectacle in itself? Or does it soon become mundane? Does abundance determine value? And does value change itself with changing forms and functions?
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