Gerda | Ponsonby
“Maybe taking too much in consideration of what’s happening around, for example, take-away cups and plates, I’ve been extremely conscious about it. People surprise me that they don’t really care. I don’t know. It’s some kind of division of humanity as well.
I’m surprising myself how much I’m trying to care about the planet and about how we eat, and from where we eat, and what we put in the rubbish bin. Surprising myself how much I’m trying to be involved with that, and compared with some other people, I see that’s ignorance, and how easy it is to be ignorant. Maybe becoming a parent kind of changes your values much more, you know, about what’s going to happen to the world.
I kind of just want to think about it, you know my grand-grandchildren and what kind of planet they’re going to live in. Looking at the older generation for example, like my children’s grandparents here, they have no tolerance or no interest to change things. You know? That’s just ignorance, that’s the hardest thing. I think it’s just lazy, because it’s so easy to put everything in the bin or throw away, isn’t it? You’re just not thinking where it’s going to go next, it’s something that’s just lazy and ignorant.
I’m a costume designer, and I’m just having my children at the moment. Well definitely I most value the family, and living so far away from where I come from, you understand your values more, I’m originally from Lithuania, that’s from Europe.
It’s definitely a dramatic change, from living in London. Having a child-free life, you know, and suddenly living in New Zealand, having two small kids, it’s a dramatic change, mentally and physically. Not having any family around, not having any support, that’s the hardest thing, but on the other hand it’s probably the best thing that could happen to m
