That’s the life of most people: Wattle and daub. Make a framework from sticks or whatever rigid materials are available and fill in the gaps with a pasty goop that eventually hardens to make a protective structure. The building can be quite attractive and insulated. You build from what you find. It must be a useful and economical building system; it has been around since the Neolithic Period, and you might live in a home that, with its lath and plaster, is a more modern version.
As I said, wattle and daub is the “life of most people.” We pick up some relatively sturdy sticks of culture and personality, and we fill in the gaps with a paste comprised of anything we can find along life’s path. The “mud” and “organic matter” we use for filler are varied: Knowledge, experience, and events. Some people keep it simple with rather homogenous “mud”; others combine a complex mixture because of an active search for heterogeneity of composition. Some are content with local material. Some study, seek, and participate. Both make structures of wattle and daub, and on the surface their structures might seem identical. Those who study, seek, and participate, however, have on closer inspection a more interesting goop.
What wattle have you gathered for your structure? What daub have you used to fill in the gaps?
As I said, wattle and daub is the “life of most people.” We pick up some relatively sturdy sticks of culture and personality, and we fill in the gaps with a paste comprised of anything we can find along life’s path. The “mud” and “organic matter” we use for filler are varied: Knowledge, experience, and events. Some people keep it simple with rather homogenous “mud”; others combine a complex mixture because of an active search for heterogeneity of composition. Some are content with local material. Some study, seek, and participate. Both make structures of wattle and daub, and on the surface their structures might seem identical. Those who study, seek, and participate, however, have on closer inspection a more interesting goop.
What wattle have you gathered for your structure? What daub have you used to fill in the gaps?
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