Creativity
"You cant tell the truth in someone else's voice"
-Anne Lamott speaking with Tami Simon for Insights At The Edge podcast 'Radical Self Care Changes Everything’
How To Solar Print With Turmeric
You'll need:
•coffee filters
•turmeric
•isopropol alcohol
•sheet of glass or plastic
•small jar
•quality paper
•A brush
•a solid object
•baking soda
•water
Method:
- Put the coffee filter on the glass jar and
- add your turmeric, 1 tbsp
- Add 1/4 cup alcohol
- Let it drain through
- brush the liquid onto the card/paper
- put it in
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In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
Facing Your Fear of Being Misunderstood IS the Creative Process
youtu.beThere'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 re
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"That fact is that art and artists, they do not exist in watertight compartments. Their individual personality, their cultural background will always come through whether it's poetry, or music, or acting, or writing, it will find an expression." - Javed Javed Akhtar
Documentary the Roshans episode 1.
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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