#dylan gauthier

[hyperallergic]

On a light gray day last October, I donned a pair of oversize galoshes and life jacket, picked up a paddle, climbed into a rowboat, and set out on Newtown Creek. My four companions and I (split among two boats) didn’t have a set destination or an especially specific purpose. We were there to experience the creek — to get a more personal, human-scaled view of one of the most polluted waterways in the country.

Artistic Encounters with Our Toxic Waters

[notes-slowroots]

Craft teaches consequence… The consequence of not teaching craft, is that many in our society are not trained to understand the complex and often inequitable processes which result from the manufacture smooth products, up to and including their transportation and the form in which they finally come to us, pre-washed and packaged in plastic.

Dylan Gauthier, "Respectable Craft: On Trash Boatbuilding and Alchemical Pedagogies" (2013, p. 8)

[wearered76]

Bright thoughts on civic engagement at Henry last night in Greenpoint.

[wearered76]

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