Roses Labour

Bread feeds the body; roses feed the soul. Everyone needs bread but we also need roses.

The 19th century English polymath John Ruskin wrote about this sentiment in his book Unto this Last!, “For we are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for bread, and that is to be done strenuously, other work to do our delight, and that is to be done heartily: neither is to be done by halves and shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all.”

Bread Labour

Ruskin says that we have work to do for bread, and that is to be done strenuously. The original idea of Bread Labour is, basically, that every person should do some form of physical labour in order to provide for their sustenance. In other words, you should both induce and sate your hunger through your own productive exertion and not through the labour of others. It is a practice that attempts to relate what an individual produces with what they consume. In a world where there is so much abstract labour Bread Labour is a way to ground us back into reality. Bread Labour is a version of self-sufficiency. Read more about Bread Labour here.

Roses Labour

Roses Labour is about creating beauty in your life. Roses are a metaphor for beauty; or, in other words, a metaphor…