Beauty is seen in many ways. What is appealing to one person is appalling to someone else. It definitely works that way in the world of art.
One person sees a Jackson Pollock piece as a mélange of paint squiggles on canvas, while another views it as an amazing artistic creation. Someone thinks of a Picasso work as genius, but someone with different taste thinks it is grotesque. This distinction came to mind when our No.
2 daughter returned from a trip to Guatemala. She was there to build houses with her son and a group from their school. So you won’t think that this was a group with advanced construction experience, the structures were relatively simple.
Made of concrete floors, four walls of cinder block and corrugated metal along with metal roofs, these were one-room dwellings. While the roof kept out rain and pounding sun, the walls and lockable door were built with security in mind. But it was the concrete floor that she said was most important.
Rather than dirt floors, these hard surfaces allowed for a far greater opportunity for little ones to survive through infancy. The hardened floors meant that infants were not placed directly on the dirt with the potential to inhale or ingest all sorts of organic and inorganic material that often causes harm and in too many cases death. This was a game changer for the people who moved in.
Our daughter enthusiastically told of her days there on the mission trip. She flipped through photos on her tablet and showed the people with.
