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SCAB ART is MAKING ART for THEM.

Passing time while you are waiting for something to happen can be ruthless. This is a way to find moments and measure time when time feels impossible. It's a way to process the waiting and to be ready for something in a different way. This is a crochet project that requires at least 300 diamonds to make cubes. This is a puzzle project. There are lots of firsts for me in this one and a lot of learning. Finding ways to join shapes, and work colours together. This is mid project. Around 150 diamonds to go and one quarter joined. This project is pleasure based and if it weren't for waiting around for a baby to happen, I wouldn't have the time to see it through. Every part of the timeline/process of this blanket is a project in itself.

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Baby Blankets: pt.1 with song “Dreams" by Badlands

Badlands comes from the California desert. During their “Dark Dreams” tour, they brought their newly released 7-inch and tapes to Vancouver, along with tiny zines about romancing cactus plants. Badlands played a house show at Thor’s palace. The show was packed and all were dancing and singing along. They were here just in time for the first hints of cherry blossoms. This album has become my spring album. This time of the year in vancouver is so special, especially when you listen to things over and over. Because driving around listening to the cassette, which is a split with Ripe Mangos/Housings, is all I have been doing since I picked it up and the streets have been full of blossoms and lovely tiny flowers. I’m in love with this song writing and this becomes so special when you are listening to something over and over while knitting or crocheting, or doing any time length craft project.

Badlands outinthedesert.bandcamp.com/ THIS IS NOT SCAB ART

Sock Debt is a video about long term repayment. I have owed this pair of socks to someone who contributed $$ to a project I am part of, for over a year. The socks are also a stand in for the original thing I was supposed to make, but the original thing turned out to be too dangerous. When you think about paying people back, in the moment, you might trade anything, but you realize quickly, that there is a physical object you must give, and then there is the mental weight of carrying around the idea of the thing owed. Until, you can get around to finishing it. The long awaited moment where you can give the thing, and finally make room in your head for something else. you realize that besides the obvious satisfaction you might get from knowing your friend is wearing your pair of socks some where, it's never really worth it. not in time accrued compared to $ lost/spent/earned.

This video is about work, unpaid labour for pleasure. It's about finding a way to congratulate myself on my accomplishments, because this type of crafting doesn't have a finished piece when you give it away. I forget as soon as it's gone. Maybe now I will feel like I am doing something. This is about honouring the art of undoing, and acknowledging that undoing or dismantling take a long time and require patience and method. This is about the time it takes to go backwards, and undo mistakes, in order to redo. LOST TIME/INFINITY/NO WAGE/ COPING/ NO RESULT It's ok. tearing it apart is just, if not more enjoyable than making it. This is a wave stitch pattern baby blanket. The colours became too experimental and I had to make a decision. This will be given away, and I will soon forget about it. unraveling yarn

these socks will take 25 hours.  they are a birthday gift for my sister. I have been working on these for 3 months. they can be difficult. doubled sock yarn. sleep knitting, cold hands, stay warm, this is something I am working on. Self gratification because when you give it away you forget. west coast/ documentation/music video/hand picked/self portrait /video art/

do something. material feminism. Nobody cares about this type of work, labour. this is a type of labour (unwaged) for pleasure. not for sale socks. you have to believe in it. minimal communism.

much thanks to lake, the band. This is not scab art.

music: lake "relief"