4 Ergebnisse.

When her career is derailed by a rare disease, artist Paula Billups takes up knitting to pass the time. While unraveling her work, Paula thinks of Penelope in Homer's "Odyssey", the queen whose cleverness holds a hundred unwelcome suitors at bay, promising to marry when her weaving is finished, but undoing her work each night. She confounds the suitors for several years. Mystified by the success of such a fragile pretext, Paula builds an anci...

In the summer of 2018, in response to the government's cruel policies of separating families at the border who were seeking asylum, artist Paula Billups created 30 paintings in 30 days and sold them online. She donated 100%% of the profits to the Texas Civil Rights Project, which advocates for disenfranchised people and which played a role in assisting these refugees with their legal and logistical needs. This book is a compilation of those wo...

In August of 2017, artist Paula Billups announced she would create 30 paintings in 30 days and offer them for sale, with 100% of the sale price to be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. She did this independently, in response to the racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. On completion of the project, 30 days had passed, 28 of the works had sold, and Ms. Billups donated over $1, 300 to the SPLC. This book is a collection of all 3...

BERLIN, GERMANY. 2016. Brian Mistre, a developer who has a number of buildings to demolish, finds himself helping a band of "Microtemporal Archaeologists" - scientists who study the very recent past through the posters and signs that cover Berlin's buildings. Dr. Gioia Arrigoni, the group's enigmatic leader, puts him to work cataloging scraps for the archive, and an unlikely alliance takes root . . . A meditation on friendship, vocation, and c...