Onfim - Blog Posts
Birch bark letter no. 202: spelling lessons and drawings by Onfim (aged 6 or 7), c.1240–1260. Source: Wikimedia commons
Find out more about this drawing in my Artfully Learning post: "Ancient Art Education"
was at lunch with a friend a few weeks ago talking about Onfim (Russian schoolboy who drew on his homework around the 13th century) and she said "Yeah? That's just human nature?"
YEAH IT IS THAT'S THE POINT WE'RE HUMANS WE'RE HUMANS AND WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN HUMANS FROM BABY HANDPRINTS IN CAVES WHERE BIG PEOPLE WOULD'VE HAD TO PICK THEM UP AND HELP THEM TO THE LOVE WORK INTO OTZI'S SHOES TO SILLY GRAFFITI IN POMPEII. WE'RE HUMANS AND WE WERE MADE THIS WAY TO MAKE ART AND SKNG AND DANCE AND LIVE. THAT'S THE THESIS GOD MADE US LIKE THIS AND YOU CAN TRACE THE WONDER THAT IS HUMANITY ACROSS THE WORLD AND THE MILLENIA. IT'S SO COOL
i like archaeology.
(also note the continuing dedication to Ea-Nasir. Excellent choice on everyone's part to discuss sub-par copper)
Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.
I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.
Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.
And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!
Is that not just the coolest shit ever????