Thames & Hudson, 2022
“I cannot think of any metaphor which better describes the organic growth of culture and scholarship than that of the coral organism.
One lays down one’s own skeleton on the heap of bones left by others, who by doing so have built up a patterned structure. One also does it for the benefit of later comers, who will in turn lay their remains on yours. It is the inclusive effect of this accretion, not the individual contribution, that creates cultural meaning.”
Michael King recalling his UK conversation with New Zealand expatriate Eric McCormick.1
I am thumbing through the large-format Thames & Hudson book , edited by Cameron Bruhn
