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Meditations on Textile Waste

December 1, 2023 ·

Cover of "Practices of Everyday Ethics Vol 2 Meditations on Textile Waste" by Lois Klasen. The image on the cover is a drawing of a hand holding a small bunch of textile waste. The image has been coloured with pencil crayons, with the hand coloured blue and green.

Like the mounds of textile waste accumulating in our lives and around the globe, my meditation cushion is filled with mixed and unknown fibers. Most fabrics currently in global circulation are a blend of synthetic (petroleum based) and natural …

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Renegade Library Box #13

September 18, 2023 ·

Materials from the interior of Renegade Library Box #13 including an exhibition catalogue with brightly coloured fabric pieces cut in flame or fire shapes. The other items have the same graphic in black and white.

From 1996 to 1998, Renegade Library was a social practice and a collection of over 500 artist books. Originating with a mail art call for “collaborative mail art in book form,” this project brought over 700 artists from some 40 countries into …

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Yoga Bolsters & Dog Beds

January 10, 2023 ·

Practices of Everyday Ethics: Yoga Bolsters and Dog Beds (cover)

An everyday ethical challenge is keeping textiles out of the trash. Textile disposal is environmentally damaging and costly—so much so that the City of Vancouver has urged residents to take a “zero waste” approach to textiles. Unfortunately, that …

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Mail art from The Poem Factory (Ed Varney)

December 3, 2022 ·

Two book chapbooks and a sheet of 4 artist-stamps. Books: "Walking the Dog" with line drawing of Setter pointing nose to right; Ineffable Mystical Poems: with 5 pointed star coloured yellow with eyes on the top point; stamps - with line drawing of stone with "Mondo Postal 10" as title.

This nice packet of paper goods came in the mail from Ed Varney's "The Poem Factory" in Courtney, BC (on Vancouver Island). I initiated the exchange by sending the DADA of mail art 2 full sets of RML books (with a few more poetry chapbooks, added …

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La bibliothèque Liza Leyla

May 18, 2022 ·

Four books by Liza Leyla are lying on a grey surface. Three feature paintings by the writer. One features a photo of the writer.

Moving studio contents this week, I found four small books that were mailed as mail art to me from the prolific and generous Brussels-based writer, Liza Leyla (Eliza Muylaert). Leyla is diligent about sending publications addressed to Renegade …

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