When asked to explain the beauty in crafts, S etsu Yanagi, writer and theorist on the Japanese Mingei Movement, replied that it is a beauty identified with and born of use. ‘The special quality of beauty in crafts is that it is a beauty of intimacy. Since the articles are to be lived with every day, this quality of intimacy is a natural requirement
Stephanie McBride explores Deirdre Brennan’s photographic response to James Joyce’s Ulysses
