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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> My intention for Strange Material is simple. I want you to identify your own stories and encourage you to share them through handmade work. If you are not motivated to make something with your hands. I hope that the tales shared by the artists within these pages inspire you to look for stories in unlikely pockets of your life. Narrative is the binding thread of human experience and stories are the medium that we use to know one another and ourselves. This book was prompted by a series of epiphanies that I experienced while researching my previous book. Hoopla The Art of Unexpected Embroidery. Through the course of interviewing twenty-three artists I discovered that every con- versation was lit with elements of story. Artist Sherri Lynn Wood told me that there was no written history of women’s contributions to the world of tattoo arts in the 1990s yet she captured this historical microcosm through her embroidered Tattoo Baby Doll Project. Aubrey Longley-Cook’s stitched animation of his roommate’s runaway dog Gus captured the perpetual motion of Gus’s psyche photographed in two ways. (SP)