MOVING ON                                                                                Ceramic Exhibition at Bowness-on-Solway (Round the Island Studio Art Trail)

People on the move; an age old story. We have always moved for the same kinds of reasons, because our fundamental survival needs don't change.

 Changes in climate: Difference in temperature, ice ages, or great heat, causing water courses to change channels and wells to dry up, drought and crop failure and firestorms, or flooding (think Noah's Ark or Bangladesh today). The outgrowing of available resources: Fewer animals left to hunt, the need for new pastures for grazing animals, land stripped of nutrient, overcrowding and competition for shelter, also the simple need for adventuring in response to genetic need; a new life, self betterment or providing for family left behind. A Nomadic way of life is a time honoured way of dealing with this, latterly people move across entire continents to seek a better life. Hostilities: FIghting over resources, or land. Fleeing from animosity, intolerance, and persecution, war, genocide, famine, capture and/or torture and death.Trade;Routes and demands changing as commodities become scarce or new ones are exploited and take precedence.

From prehistoric times to the present day our fundamental needs don't change, it really is a matter of survival. Amongst the essentials Shelter, Food and Water Containers and Climate Alteration are represented here.