Carina sends me a VERY INSPIRED present!

[Rebecca Guyver]

Carina sent me a fabulous package.  It is not just stuff.  It speaks to me on many levels.  It is about who we are, where we came from and how we are inspired, at least. Carina sent me this trashrug in response to stuff I sent her.  It's a thank you. PLEASE! I carry aournd Carina's boekies and share them in schools.  She is inspiring! It goes round and round and mail art is a powerful catalyst. to see what's inside visit: 

http://memoriesaremadeofthismailart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/carina-a...

[De Villo Sloan]

Beyond the fringe

[De Villo Sloan]

Rug-ged Individualism.

[Carina]

Rebecca, wow, I don't find the right words other than this means more than I ever thought to.

All your carpets, love them all and especially the wedding carpet... thank you so much!!    It's all about stories!

Thanks Diane & DVS :)

[Rebecca Guyver]

'I'm lost in the supermarket!' (Sorry, couldn't help it...Thanks DVS).

[De Villo Sloan]

Trash tents & carpets for nomadic bands of Kulters wandering in the wastes after the TrashPocalypse.

Rebecca, I saw Figgy's very perceptive meditation on "shopping for images" in Allen Ginsberg's "Supermarket in California." That poem is clearly rooted in AG's adoration of Walt Whitman but uncertainty about WW's expansive, capitalist utopian vision. The whole poem is filled with references to buying & selling and commodification, so the phrase fits - and it might even be a proto Trash poem.

At least in that earlier work, AG did have a sharp eye for isolated images that speak volumes. So I think F is on the mark: It's a supermarket of images as well as things.

[DKeys]

a billboard sized trashquilt would be great--taking trashpo to the streets? DKult might be able to sponsor this--KDJ said the bake sale went VERY well

[Rebecca Guyver]

facade!

[Rebecca Guyver]

Oops, not sure why that did that twice.  I meant Royal Academy show RA.  Typing too fast because it's really dog walking hour.

[Rebecca Guyver]

DVS, are you sure you weren't a fashion designer in a previous life?  

I went to the RSA show and to my shock there was something like a trash quilt on the faced... It is recycled but it isn't paper and it isn't fused plastic.  We've got to get going, Diane!

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/summer-2013/summer-exhib...

Carina definately deserves a trashPoLitzer. Lobby KDJ!

[De Villo Sloan]

I'll pass the nomination along to KDJ.

Rebecca, that is a tremendous presentation using Carina's trashrug with your rugs.

The Trashpo innovations don't cease. I wonder if what Carina has done here could be used for Trashwigs too. Those Beatle moptop wigs were really popular, and Trashwigs could fill that void in the market.

Great stuff!