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(click image to enlarge) ABOUT LEA REDMOND Lea
Redmond,
has a strong interest in the relationship between
unique, handmade things, and mass-produced items and its relationship
with culture. Redmond acts as a political activist and creates
opportunities of cultural change in her art practice. Redmond majored in
Philosophy and Politics and minored in Environmental Studies at Whitman
College in Walla Walla, Washington. Lea’s interest in material culture
has also led her to work at The Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley,
California, where children learn to connect with the earth and each
other through a garden and kitchen classroom. She also served in
AmeriCorps on the Oregon coast at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology,
coordinating an interdisciplinary watershed restoration project. In
Boonville, she also did graphic design for Stella Cadente Olive Oil and
also assisted a scent alchemist. CARE INSTRUCTIONS / TAG EXCHANGE Statement Redmond designed this clothes tag project to honor the best of what clothing can be in this world: something that connects us to the earth and each other in positive, beautiful ways. Clothes tags are usually the only tiny snippet of information we get about an item's history: "Made in China," "100% cotton," etc. This amount of information is so small that it is almost meaningless. Furthermore, is it even noticed? She believes that our failure to create (demand?) a new clothes system that treats the earth and people well is really a failure of the imagination. Perhaps China is too far to go to find out for ourselves, but if we can tell stories - true stories - about the peoples and places wrapped up in the production of clothing, and if we can keep these stories and images in our heads, Lea believes our clothing will begin to speak to us in different ways and with new meanings - meanings that lead to the creation of careful relationships and healthy methods of making.
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