Andersen Design Economic Evolution Discourse

As Corona Virus demands change, a transforming culture grant us permission to be who we never thought we would be. Photo by Mackenzie Andersen of  Pelican sculpture by Weston and Brenda Andersen for Andersen Desig n I awoke in the morning in an instance that dreaming becomes consciousness, a transition as elusive to detect as that precise moment when night becomes dawn. I was travelling in my dream on the main road out of town passing through the point where the Harbor becomes Boothbay. On the side of the road, I saw a sign that said “Learn Farm”, crafted on a wooden board painted with weathered white paint, and written in Times New Roman font. A frame around the words lent the sign traditionally old fashioned flair.  In dream word play, the message is its new but its old. Times, New Roman, correlating with to my concept of a twenty-first century cottage industry , a network of businesses in residence, pre-industrial culture resurrected for a world evolving toward smaller, autonom