Stephen, did you know you can go online & order clothing labels? My wife is
a knitter & when she finishes a sweater of something, she puts her label
into it. I wonder if you could get one just big enough to put a tiny poem
on?
jd
On 6/13/07, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> The friend who was at this workshop was tickled pink, and kept her phrase
> on
> her sweater for months before she finally unpicked it.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Bill Gates funds research into 'red verse'
>
>
> >> I heard about a workshop he ran a while back, in which people had to
> >> write
> >> or paint or embroider words onto pieces of fabric, which they then cut
> >> out
> >> and sewed to the backs of other people's clothes, without showing them
> >> first. So you walked around for the rest of the day, if you were brave
> >> enough, with an unknown phrase etc on your back.
> > Sounds like possibly an interesting exercise in human trust, and
> depending
> > on the phrase, imagination. Malevolence does not seem to be at the
> heart
> > of
> > the exercise, in any case. Participating, and the mystery of the kind of
> > public exposure you are providing others with words that you have not
> > seen,
> > I am sure takes some bravery. As say different from wearing designer
> label
> > clothes that function as advertisements for others. I once had a dream
> of
> > a
> > garment manufacturer that put "poetry" as a tag on the shirts and
> clothes,
> > where one would normally find, say, the "Levis" label.
> > I still think it's a pretty good idea!
> >
> > Stephen V
> > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> > Currently home of the unauthorized Sol Lewitt Memorial Site (Sight)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Rather reminds me of Valerie Laws' Quantum Sheep, where she
> spray-painted
> >> a
> >> letter or two onto the back of each sheep in a small flock, and noted
> >> down
> >> the combinations as they moved about the field -- that must have been
> >> much
> >> the same from the sheep's point of view.
> >>
> >> There are some interesting ideas blowing about in this north-east air
> >> .....
> >>
> >> joanna
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:04 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Bill Gates funds research into 'red verse'
> >>
> >>
> >>>> A lot of Alec's work seems to be very visual -- did he train as a
> >>>> artist, do you know?
> >>>
> >>> I don't know, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised, though would
> suspect
> >>> something more like a combined art history/literature course of the
> kind
> >>> Edinburgh U runs.
> >>>
> >>>> He runs a small press called Morning Star -- Alec, I mean, not the
> dog.
> >>> Has
> >>>> this anything to do, I wonder, with the Communist daily paper of that
> >>> name?
> >>>
> >>> I'd never thought about it, I guess I assumed it was a nautical
> >>> reference --
> >>> Stella Maris, that kind of thing.
> >>>
> >>> P
> >>>
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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