craft + activism = craftivism.

Text from here. Photo from here. On Monday I got an email, followed by a phone call with Bill Harris who works for the city. He was very nice, and said the city’s hands were tied and they tried to find a way to keep them — but they have to go. Councilmember Lorie Zapf [...]

So last week over on

In a recent newsletter for the Dreamrocket, Jennifer Marsh mentioned that some quilters from Gee’s Bend were donating a few panels to the Dreamrocket project. She notes in the newsletter that, “In 1937 and ’38, the federal government commissioned two series of photographs of Gee’s Bend. The images have since become some of the most [...]

…That you may not have read. Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about online consumption vs. online production, and wondering how my view on both went so askew. As I’ve been puttering around with my own work, I’ve sorely been neglecting passing on what feeds me creatively, so here are a [...]

Reflecting on the death of his friend, Gilgamesh decides to search for the key to eternal life, an ultimately futile quest. “Gilgamesh, what you seek you will never find. For when the Gods created Man they let death be his lot, eternal life they withheld. Let your every day be full of joy, love the [...]