Conscious awareness of a cultural inheritance generates multiple vocabularies. So much is dependent on time, place and paths crossing.
No one can turn back the clocks for everyone else. It is possible to draw inspiration from the traditions and customs of a bygone era, but it is unlikely that the expression can be experienced with freshness in the present moment.
Artists endowed with exceptional talent and skill can produce new forms of timeless work, influenced by output of their forebears, of course.
Keeping one’s mind in the present helps to maintain focus on making functional products, here and now.
Some will give the people what they want, while others will create the sustenance the culture needs.
