Creative practitioners.
They are everywhere. From the table I sit at to the road outside my house. From the style of the plant beds outside to the seats on the train, from the carpet to my hair cut. The sound of my phone alerting me to a message or call, they were chosen by someone, even my accent shows choices made over generations. Every choice made shows thought processes, be it communication, ergonomics or aesthetics.
Only that which is untouched by human is free from our artistic choices and in Britain you could argue that there is nothing which hasn't been influenced in some way. Our landscapes are all human made, maybe the remotest areas of wales or scotland have less but even the wilds of wales, which to an untrained eye may look 'natural', they have had years of bracken and gorse being burnt or walls built or sheep grazing. It's all shaped our landscape. Even the plants which we have allowed to grow, or which we have imported for their looks and let loose(e.g. japanese knotweed, famously invasive), even these show our influence. We grow plants which suit our sense of aesthetics, we breed vegetable varieties until they suit supermarket marketing.
You ask me for 24 hours of spotting evidence of creative practitioners at work. I look around me and even the weeds have been chosen.
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