secret lentil clothing: Pre-Coffee Collage Number Two: Rackstraw

Wednesday, June 18

Pre-Coffee Collage Number Two: Rackstraw

… perspective is an attempt to standardize the metaphor of the depiction of space. — Rackstraw Downes

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the loneliness of the hard-working dung beetle

I like dung beetles. And I mean really like – a dung beetle pushing a ball of dung is on my short list ...

artifacting: the creation of artifacts

We want to see where others' hands have worked, want to place ourselves in relation to those hands, want to be a part of the world of making ...

thoughts on words on clothes.

As a middle-aged lady with a punk aesthetic who was also once (ahem, three-times) an English major I have a strongly ambivalent relationship with text on clothing ...

games helens play

Today I'm playing the game where I pretend I have the day off from work but then I stop in at the studio, just to make a few things ...

They both build things.

"Hey, how's your internet over there?" "Good. I'm reading about a weaver whose work I really like." "A beaver?" ...

it's okay: water, fire and the anagama collection

You know how people always tell you to walk away from your creative work when you're stuck? I'm really bad at that. I had to be knocked on my ass instead.

you do it backwards.

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