“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edibleor beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net wowen of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medecine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do mucht the same again
- if to do that is human, if that’s what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time.” (Ursula K. Le Guin: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction)
- if to do that is human, if that’s what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time.” (Ursula K. Le Guin: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction)
Here are some impressions on the process of making and creating:
It started with getting to know the machines and with a simple bag, that we made out of the shirts we had. Just sewing together the hem of the shirt and thereby creating a bottom to the future bag. By removing the arms of the shirt and cutting away more material at the collar - we made some handles.
Ready was the first bag. Followed by stitching practices on ready made tote bags, that we got for free from a privat contact and a japanese knot bag. This was made from the wrapping material in which the re-imported clothes from Benin, Kenya and Cameroon arrived. Added by textiles from our archive of shirts.
Some personalized and smaller carrier bags, to carry the material to work with at home:
