Clothing
There's an exhibition currently on at the RWA gallery called Soft Power and it's entirely textile based art. It's deep, powerful and full of storytelling.
There's 2 photographs by Maryam Wahid, one of a brown skinned woman with a beautiful orange-yellow gown, posing on a chair in an old building. The quote from the artist reads:
"In this series I
... See moreCraft is contemporary because it is progressive, because creating things by hand yourself proposes an alternative microeconomic of local making, a system of exchange more akin to bartering with its emphasis on trade and tactile connections to supply-and-demand. It is environmentally conscious and respectful of the earth's diminishing resources.
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"Actually kind of the most anti-consumer thing that you can do is teach a seventh grader how to make their own clothes or dye something from a waste of something else"
- Sasha Duerr on Botanical Colors Feedback Friday: Mapping Color with Sasha Duerr + Maibe Maroccolo
Making Things As A Subversion Of Neoliberalism
I watched this really thought-provoking video:
https://youtu.be/JZsGjQurxDc?si=eOE78IS5XgMTW7PN
that details all the ways which knitting or making things subverts neoliberalism. It got me thinking about my own connection to sustainability and slowness and agency.
I think it's very interesting how Virginia
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