Love, peace and feminism

 

Though I was in the workshop today progressing a few small pieces for the Vessel exhibition I thought today I would share a few photos of our pop up letterpress shop at the Communities in Control Conference in Melbourne. 

This year we decided to take some of the posters and cards that represented our main themes of work over the last 12 months. As it turns out they included: war and peace; equality and feminism; and love and kindness for oneself and others. 

Anyway a few images of our setting up and what we had on sale.

Love, peace and feminism are good themes to have I think.

A few images from Monday's March4Justice in Brisbane

 

The words on the placards-signs speak for themselves and for us. We have had enough of the promises, procedures and processes that fail to deliver gender equality and stop the violence against women.

May the current movement continue - may it be strong enough to dismantle patriarchy because patriarchy won't dismantle itself - patriarchy will always work hard to protect its privilege.

So far to go

 

Reflecting on the death and work of RBG made me realise that we have made so little progress in regards to gender equality; even though some folk have worked so hard and given so much for so long. 

Patriarchy is still the system that dominates and supports inequality. Until men  recognise that and are willing to let it go, dismantle it and replace it with equality; then we will never have equality.

This reflection resulted in this simple poster. The posters are about 330-350mm wide and 560-620mm long.

I love the fact that the italic wood type is very old and so worn and even cracked - maybe it reflects the fact that the struggle to dismantle patriarchy has been going on for a very, very long time.

Fiona said she wanted us to keep the proofs so that she can reuse bits of the posters and/or rework them - they will emerge in another form. Note that the D on the first proof was back to front.

For now there is a limited edition of 5 on three different types of paper. In the end the grey was my favourite.