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BLOGMETENDAL DCCLXXV: ironing.

After the spin cycle on the washing machine, the clothes are very creased. You hang them out to dry and then iron them, and that’s it. Perhaps, when they take the washing off the line to iron it, they could take the opportunity to tidy up...

BLOGMETENDAL DCCLXXIII: Talking

“There’s no one to talk to!” That’s the most often repeated sentence by villagers. “Not even at the hairdresser’s,” confirm the women from the villages. The washing lines—those bio-markers—bear witness to this progressive muteness. Here is this washing line with no neighbour washing line who offer a...

BLOGMETENDAL DCCLXXII: Reuse

Everything can be reused. Washing is a kind of reincarnation and revitalisation. A freezer bag can be used for onions, a shopping bag for clothes pegs, and an item of clothing serves the same purpose – but it keeps on serving, and serving, and serving. Renewed to...

BLOGMETENDAL DCCLXX: Being Clothes.

Being clothes isn’t easy. It’s very hard on them. They spend most of their time on a hanger—and that’s not even the worst of it! Often they’re buried under other clothes, suffocating them. And we put them on, and take them to all sorts of places...