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Littlestone
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Re: Offerings at stones
May 12, 2006, 14:30
>People always tend to go that bit further.<

Yup, you're right TE, building mosques in churches, churches on circles, things are adapted to new uses all the time. Going back to Ryoan-ji for a moment, it was created by and for just a very few people, not the thousands who visit it every year, and in that sense it has changed both for the good and the bad.

Goff put his finger on it when he said, "It's all a matter of scale." Too much tat and the place has had it. A little, preferably removed after the offering or at least biodegradable and unobtrusive, is something we're probably going to have to live with (that's the democratic bit young Nigel ;-) "A rule that leaves the site as a blank canvas for everyone's experience is the only clear one." is perhaps our preferred option but in practice it's never going to happen - blank canvases are to be painted on, and everyone has their own idea of what is art :-)
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