Fiber Awareness Project Part 2

Alright well as some of you might be aware--or not. The FAW is really sort of a two part project. The first part involved this blog as well as the map and all of that. The second part of this project included clothing swaps, getting together with people and trying to make stuff. The first and the second parts of this project both sort of worked and sort of didn't work for differing reasons. The stepping stones in the first project we over came to some extent, I'm still not overly happy with the map--mainly because I want MORE people from other countries. However, I'm okay with where things are at this point in time. I would like to continue posting information on different fibers on here, we'll see how that goes.

So one of the big issues we've been trying to resolve with both of these projects is; what do we do with the information. How do we display it? How do we put what we've been doing into a format for people to come and look at. In a format that we can put up for critique next month. We got together today to try and figure out the answers to some of these questions:

What came first? The attack of the clothing zombies! We've all been brain washed into buying more and more clothing. What would happen if we all had to wear all the clothing we think that we need and or want? (We'd probably all be sweating our buts off and falling over because we couldn't hardly stand up among other things.) Hahahha... anyway rather random but it was a fun interlude into meaninglessness.

You have a whole bunch of clothing, but what do you do with it? What do you do that constitutes an art project that raises awareness about clothing and where it comes from? What do you want to draw peoples attention and how do you do that? (Yes, clothing zombies isn't the answer.)

Well you can take all of the clothing that you have and weave them together into a great big rug. However then you end up with one more big thing that sits in a big somewhere in your house that you never know what to do with again. That isn't really something that either of us really wanted or needed. We discussed cutting things up to, but we didn't really want to destroy the clothing and render it useless... so we settled for cutting all the tags out of the clothing instead: