Chief and the Hunner

items found and arranged by some of the participants at my recent urban scavenging workshop ✨🐦‍⬛

Image from String Theory

This one's for my fellow crafters with a bunch of plastic shopping bags sitting in their pantry. (We all have that bag of bags, let's be real.)

Single-use plastic shopping bags pass through our lives in moments, but they last FOREVER in a landfill. Instead of leaving them to take up space in your home or throwing them away, and if you don't have a recycling location locally that takes shopping bags, you can turn them into plarn! Some of you may remember this from the 2010s, when people were turning grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless, reusable shopping baskets, and all sorts of things.

There are a few different ways to make plarn, depending on how much effort you want to put into it. Here are some tutorials to help you get started, in video and text form:

The Spruce Crafts - How to Make Plastic Yarn of Plarn From Shopping Bags

String Theory Yarn Co - How to Make Plarn (Plastic Yarn)

Needlepointers - How To Make Plastic Yarn (YouTube)

colorful NYC street finds (plus a daytrip to Beacon) July / August 2024

DANIELA MIKULÁŠKOVÁ is a Czech artist who paints with threads.  Her free and energetic lines do not make you think of decorative art - Daniela leads you more into a scientific universe or cosmic travel.  

5 Mars 2025

Onsdag

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Big Snow, 1984

Gianpaolo Pagni, LETTURE STENOGRAFICHE, (rubber stamps on printed material (Stenografia oggi, Casa editrice Poseidonia, Prima edizione 1980)), 2024 [© Gianpaolo Pagni]

Constantin Brancusi. March 16, 1957.

Forum. 1959 #8.

Celia Pym