Gossip: An Investigation into the Feminine Art of Conversation
Gossip is a craft and a kind of labour that women have used to create and sustain social networks for centuries. In spaces like quilting bees and sewing circles, gossip has been a form of resistance where women exchanged knowledge and wove their stories together both literally and metaphorically. There’s a deep connection between textiles, computing, and discourse.
What I love about gossip is that it operates on different levels – it’s a form of cultural labour, walks the line between care and control, but it’s also joy. It’s celebration, and it’s survival. A radical reclamation of leisure and connection.
This artist book explores the relationship between gossip and textiles through an image archive, a pixel font inspired by Gutenberg’s first Textura font, and an icon set inspired by Susan Kare’s pixel designs for the initial web.
Size (closed): 10″×16″. Handbound book with letterpressed endpapers.
