This flipbook is an idiosyncratic “how-to” manual that aims to encourage doing “less” for a “better” world, grappling with and pushing the meanings of betterment terminology. Seeking to encourage less reliance on the increasingly intangible machine world, Fire: Creating it Naturally focuses on the basic survival skill of fire building. The notion of creating fire by hand encourages less reliance on larger infrastructure; by building one’s own fire, one satisfies the need for warmth, heat for cooking, and light, which would otherwise require electricity and manufactured goods. “We live in a time of mechanical progression, parallelling manual regression.”
