politics

Rya rugs

October 5, 2008

Rya rugs

It’s strangely gratifying when a design or craft tradition thought to have arisen autochthonous in one place and from one people turns out to have a far more mongrel origin. In my experience, when looking at artisanal and other design, it seems that cultural borrowing and hybridity are overwhelmingly the rule rather than the exception and purity has nothing to do with it.

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Meet me at The Sincere Fountain

September 2, 2008

Meet me at The Sincere Fountain

 

This great building (and its two attached houses, one dating from 1889) is just two blocks from my studio. This funny quote is from the Heatley Block Preservation Society:  “Where the hardware store is now was originally Ms.

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