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Exhibit
Shows Evolution of Common Tools
No
question, it’s an attention-grabbing photo: a mild-faced ox stares into the
camera, its nose encased in a woven muzzle.
Does
it bite? Could this be the original Mad Cow of disease fame? In fact, the muzzle
is a gadget devised by Cambodian farmers to keep the ox from eating grain
intended for humans. It’s one of 50 everyday tools to be featured in a new
show that opens this afternoon at 4 at the Reyum Gallery, No 47 St 178, and runs
through May.
Ingrid
Muan, co-director of the gallery, said the exhibit began as a project for
archaeology students at the Royal University of Fine Arts.
The
idea, she said was to examine tools commonly used in the countryside to see how
they are made, how they are used and how they are changing as society
modernizes.
“We
wanted to trace what things go away, and what things stay, and why,†| |
