Home Blindness
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“WHEN WE NO LONGER SEE THE FLAWS (OR STRENGTHS) IN OUR HOMES, WE REACH A STATE THAT THE SWEDES CALL HOME BLIND.”
Long winter evenings mean more reading, a recent interesting article I came across was in Kinfolk's Home Issue (Issue 21). The word Swedes call 'Hemmablind' which, roughly translates to 'Home blindness'. It means adapting to environments without questioning fault. We stop seeing problems to the extent that finding a solution slowly makes its way to the bottom of the to-do list until it drops off into passive acceptance. The article cites Mark Vacher (Associate professor of Ethology at the SAXO Institute in Copenhagen) explains: 'You don't mean to ignore the problems you just don't see them anymore' but its not just the flaws we stop seeing, we become blind to its strengths, it beauty.