I’ve been fascinated by my friend Jenn Pascoe’s quietly growing collection of name stamps from the bottoms of paper bags. She keeps a Flickr set of these images, right now still a self-defined work in progress. I like these small gestures at some sort of individual humanity inside the industrial manufacturing machine. Anyone out there know more about the story behind these stamps?
We received an envelope at the shipping office this past month with a couple of these stamped US$1 bills and this brief statement: The line between security & tyranny is…
In March 2009, headlines told us that “the last jaguar in the United States” had died in the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona after being snared in the wild during a…
Many of us in Pittsburgh are watching the creeping media coverage of the pending G20 Summit in September with a mixture of feelings – most notably trepidation and annoyance. Sure,…
(above: “On Behalf of the Lynx”, detail) Video was only one medium in Dara’s amazing body of work, but every bit of her brilliance, sharp social and political critique,…
Because I print on paper bags, I also have a collection!!