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Happenstance
Boro textiles are usually sewn from nineteenth and early twentieth century rags and patches of indigo dyed cotton.  The diversity of patches on any given piece is a veritable encyclopedia of hand loomed cotton indigo from old Japan. In most cases, the beautiful arrangement of patches and mending stitches is borne of necessity and happenstance, and was not planned by the maker.
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January 2013
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December 2012
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“our friends…don’t want fancy, they don’t need elaborate, and they dislike...”
– Ordinary Cooking Takes Courage by Jonathan Kahn
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“Although humans are physically separate from their plush toys, they are metaphysically connected, and most human-plush toy pairs cannot bear to be distanced by more than several yards; a girl showed significant discomfort when her plush toy flew up to the second story window of a tower while she was standing outside the building in question for only a couple of seconds…a person can...
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September 2012
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“In art we can make pictures of things we love and know and imagine”
– Childcraft: Art For Children vol. 10 Field Enterprises, Inc. 1954
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“toda la ciudad se convierte en un ambiente de aprendizaje lúdico the whole...”
– La Educación Prohibida
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Trust
mattarguello: I think we should start from a place of trust. Trust should be the default. Don’t assume whatever negative thing you can imagine will happen. Assume people are good and have the intentions you do.
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“Find what you’re good at, what you’re passionate about, and do that”
–  #GrecoEcho via @nicichar
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“The arts, for example, can take the individual by storm through sensory...”
– Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (via Roberto)
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“When we concentrate on the essential elements in design, when we omit all...”
– Dieter Rams
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