Visible Mending
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In a series of photographic vignettes, we consider several forms of visible mending, keeping in mind the contrasts between the physical world and virtual worlds. Visible mending means repair that is intended to augment rather than merely salvage the value of a design, as a matter of aesthetics or activism for examples. The contribution of this pictorial critique is the presentation and illustration of an inventory of several forms of visible mending, sometimes literal and sometimes abstract, sometimes digital and sometimes physical.
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