photo from Trouble with My Sheets by Lois Weaver and Eleanor Savage
Domestic Terrorism
Domestic Terrorism is a project that makes public the visual evidence of private domestic work and encourages the use of private detail as a means of public resistance.
Laundry hanging on a line can suggest the gender, class and aesthetic principles of the person doing the laundry. It can disclose the population and income of a household. It reveals personal taste and bad habits; betrays acts of insurrection and indiscretion. How laundry is hung can be a statement of pride or an expression of modesty. It can be a form of communication between prisoners, a violation of housing codes in certain communities or perceived as a national threat in times of war.
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New chapter
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read. The style and the colours of the words are bright and promising. The new chapter is about new everything, new hair cut, new clothes, new roof on the head, new friends, new dreams, new hopes, new candles, new meals, new places to go, new smiles to exchange, new summer time, new birthdays, new birthday cake, new faces, new odours, new everything. And as I'm writing this, and you are reading it. New ideas in your head are being drawn. And why all the excitement? Well, it's simple to answer really, and that is because at this moment I'm recording the newness of the new, the bright shining sky painted on your face, as much as painted on my face.
