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 …
Mail Art
Renegade Library Box #13
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 …
Yoga Bolsters & Dog Beds
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 …
Mail art from The Poem Factory (Ed Varney)
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
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 …