GOSSIP: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEMININE ART OF CONVERSATION
Gossip is a craft and a kind of labour that women have used to create and sustain social networks for centuries. In spaces like quilting bees and sewing circles, gossip has been a form of resistance where women exchanged knowledge and wove their stories together both literally and metaphorically. There’s a deep connection between textiles, computing, and discourse. What I love about gossip is that it operates on different levels—it’s a form of cultural labour, walks the line between care and control, but it’s also joy. It’s celebration, and it’s survival. A radical reclamation of leisure and connection.
This artist book explores the relationship between gossip and textiles through an image archive, a pixel font inspired by Gutenberg’s first font Textura, and an icon set inspired by Susan Kare’s pixel designs for the initial web.
Size (closed): 10” x 16”
Handbound book with letterpressed endpapers
Part of the Contemporary Collection at The Museum of Avant-Garde
GOSSIP: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEMININE ART OF CONVERSATION
Gossip is a craft and a kind of labour that women have used to create and sustain social networks for centuries. In spaces like quilting bees and sewing circles, gossip has been a form of resistance where women exchanged knowledge and wove their stories together both literally and metaphorically. There’s a deep connection between textiles, computing, and discourse. What I love about gossip is that it operates on different levels—it’s a form of cultural labour, walks the line between care and control, but it’s also joy. It’s celebration, and it’s survival. A radical reclamation of leisure and connection.
This artist book explores the relationship between gossip and textiles through an image archive, a pixel font inspired by Gutenberg’s first font Textura, and an icon set inspired by Susan Kare’s pixel designs for the initial web.
Size (closed): 10” x 16”
Handbound book with letterpressed endpapers
Part of the Contemporary Collection at The Museum of Avant-Garde