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Month: April 2019

One month of junk mail in bloom

41 ounces. Roughly 1.2 kilograms. That’s the amount of junk mail that found its way to our mailbox from March … More

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« All you really need is soup » is an ongoing and multilayered exploration of human connection, centered around one of our most basic needs: food. This junk paper zine is the second volume of the series. It contains : - 4 thought-ingredients printed on @mnbookarts poster press - 2 illustrated accounts of the soup gatherings that took place in January - a map retracing the connections made and blessings found when trading for volume 1. Volume 2 is once again to be swapped, bartered, traded... in an effort to keep that map growing and real life interactions going. #socialpractice #zine #letterpress #collage #soup #handdrawn #analogueartist

These unique little zines, made out of junk mail, contain 6 letterpress printed “thought ingredients” inspired by the soup gatherings that took place in our kitchen in December, as well as 3 illustrated accounts of the events. The thought ingredients are to be used as visual prompts, or thought triggers. To fight feelings of loneliness, disconnection or just plain cold-induced unease. This is volume 1 and I bound 10 copies. I’ve been debating all week wether to give them away or ask for a small contribution. I decided to “trade” them: -for a warm bowl of soup over lunch -for a donation to a food shelve -for a couple hours of your time helping me with a large paper based project. DM me if you want to trade with me :)

A very Mary Poppins portrait of me at a crossroad taken by @baronvonrupp on our first hike of 2020. The 2010s were a rollercoaster of a decade. There was pregnancy, birth, chronic illness, depression. One whole year of green-card drama, 11 months without my husband, living on my parents farm. And then the big move across the ocean and across the plains. I’ve grown more stable along the way and have met beautifully human people whose friendship I cherish and hope to celebrate in the decade to come. In ten years I went from being a full-time teacher to being a full-time translator, a full-time mom and back to some sort of hybrid I’m still trying to define. Maker, translator, teacher, mom, daughter. Collector of words and scraps. Artist.

Our second soup gathering was colorful and festive. I collected so many words it was difficult to pick 2 for my list of “ingredients” for a more humanly connected winter. I went for general categories: WARM TUNES and STORIES. Share a playlist of tunes that warm your heart with someone. Invite people over and share anecdotes about growing hydroponic thyme or about an Icelandic punk rock band you met once at an airport. Winter is for sharing.

Besides making soup with fantastic human beings and collecting magic words from them all, I have been working on two exciting 2020 projects. One of them is a collaboration with @artsatmsp It involves words, folded paper, printmaking, self mapping... all things I love to intertwine and explore. So thank you @artsatmsp !!

Here are two ideas to make winter more bearable, that came out of the first soup gathering of the season. Our fantastic guests reminded me of the importance of “flavors from home” and of sharing those flavors with friends. They are so comforting, healing and heartwarming. Sharing jokes, good or bad is also key (actually bad jokes are the best). ❄️ ❄️ 🍲 🍜 🥣 ❄️ ❄️ More details about that first soup gathering to come in a blog post at the end of the week and in a zine format at the end of the month 👋

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