A preview of the Consistent Variable Project Workbook by risa
I decided to throw one more project in the air recently and to take on putting together a book for young adults about the design experiment I was a part of last year. Though the idea had been hatching for a while, the making of it was precipitated by the upcoming Vernissage for the new Consistent Variable Project curated, again, by Clayton Evans. We sell Clayton’s clothes on Indyish.com, and we’ll be selling the Consistent Variable Project Workbook there as well.
You at Open may have been patiently wondering: what’s up? so here’s a sneak preview. This is a page in draft form. It’s all been inspired by those 70’s craft books for kids, and by books like Free to Be. I hope it’s somewhere near as lovable, because those books marked me as a kid.
One of my strongest, earliest memories: sitting on our couch in the Married Students Apartments at the University of Waterloo (which were also known as the Roach Motels, and rightly so) next to our record player (which was balanced on the wooden packing crates that were our tables) listening to the Free to Be record repeatedly. I had the biggest love of all for the voice of Alan Alda, which was maybe in part determined by the coolness of the story he told about Atalanta… remember her? speedy, independent, saucy: my kind of girl…
Speaking of my kind of girl, Haiku Emily is another solid example. I’ve never met her in person but she plowed through the photographs of the Consistent Variable Projects and wrote a haiku for every single one. They are funny, perceptive, and, as she gets more tired and more perplexed, increasingly stream of conscious-y. That’s her there, drawn how I picture her, being dead right in perfect haiku form.
This is the all-haiku site she does with a friend, check it out. Also- look for her in each issue of Worn, laying down some fine fashion haikus. Thanks go to Serah, Worn boss lady and Open editor, for e-introducing us.
keep well loves, r.
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