[sim-plis-i-tee]
Simplicity. Even the sound of the word is beautiful to me.
Socrates said that the fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. St. Thomas Aquinas said the God was infinitely simple. St. Francis could imagine no better or greater life than a simple one. Lao Tzu said that simplicity was the greatest treaure of the Tao and Tolstoy said there is no greatness without simplicity.
Euegene Delacroix said that a taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
I’m willing to risk it.
I’m tired of objects owning me. I want to own fewer than 100 objects by the end of the year.
Of course, I’ll have to cheat a bit to get that. For example, I won’t be counting individual forks in my drawer but I will count the entire set as an item. (One set of flatware.) Food shall also be excluded. (I refuse to keep a running tally of apples and eggs.) Since I share my studio space (and I don’t want to be an unholy terror to other people) I will also restrict this project to home and not work.
Hmmm. My plans for simplicity are starting to not be simple. Oh well. I think it was Einstein that said that things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
