OLDfense Materials

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When they tell you its past it's use-by-date have a think. When they tell you its not fashionable anymore worry about the planet. When they tell you that all you can do is scrap it, wonder out loud. When they tell you its ugly think why. When they tell you its rubbish look at who is telling you this. When they tell you it is useless care about waste. When they tell you that it will not be liked as, who says. When they tell you it will not work, give it a go. When they say don't do it, go ahead anyway.... Mostly they are wrong, wrong, wrong ..... SEE http://notrubbish.blogspot.com/

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FOR MUSING

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Stuff can have another life even if it has lost its purpose. It can teach us stuff and prompt memories in a new 'musing' albeit illusive. Not quite rubbish perhaps.

NOTfirewood

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NOTrubbish A CULTURALtreasure

Throughout time denim was designed to last and when it turns up in indigo blue  has been accumulating narratives, stories and myths to do with place and time – Japan, California, 'pop culture', etc.

Indigo denim in a global context carries layer upon layer of meaning with much of it finding its foundation in 'The American Dream', gold mining and the material wealth. Nonetheless there are quite different resonances at work in Japanese culture and the sensitivities and sensibilities  that inform it.

Currently globalism's relevance in a 21st C  context is being interrogated and reimagining 'materiality' is increasingly on the agenda as resources, and access to them, are the subject of a range of changing imperatives – environmental, sociopolitical, cultural etc. Almost unavoidably this cloth comes loaded with cultural cargo not to mention the 'wabi-sabi factor'.

 

MATERIALITY & UPcycling

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