Have you ever thought deeply about folding tables? Neither had I. Until this one.
The Indian wedding table: an object of beauty, soul, and utility.
This is the folding table before plastic. Built in India for celebrations - portable, functional, easy to stack and store - never seen as disposable or an afterthought.
In modern times the folding table is something you rent, drape in linen, and forget. Just a surface. Not worthy of craft or care.
But take away the plastic and something precious is revealed. This table has strips of metal lovingly patched over cracks in the wood - repair as a quiet declaration: this is not disposable.
We do this with ourselves too. Quietly set aside the parts that inconvenience us - the feelings that are uncomfortable, "ugly," too much, or inconveniently needy. Not discarded loudly. Just... not attended to.
Our approving attention is the metal strip over the crack. Not hiding what's there. Looking at it closely enough to know what it needs. To notice its beauty. To feed that part of you what it's hungry for. That's where the value lives. That's where you find out nothing in you is actually disposable. And those parts can have the most potential.
I imagine a balmy late night in India after a long day of festivities. Workers stacking these tables with care. The work not something to rush through to get to a better moment - but an honor. A digestion of the day's joy, connection, new beginnings.
Plastic tables are perceptible even when concealed with a cloth. The hollow sound, the brittle give, the indifference of the material. You can always FEEL what something is made of.
You can always feel what something is made of. The question is whether you've given yourself the same attention long enough to find out.
Love Leah,
Organic Erotic Curator
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