Monday, January 23, 2012
Agustina Woodgate looks anxiously over her shoulder before passing her needle through another pair of brown trousers. The tag she sews into the waistband reads, “Life is a huge dream/ Why work so hard?” Hiding among the racks in a thrift store in Hialeah’s Flamingo Plaza, she sews as many poetry tags as she can into secondhand clothes before she gets kicked out.
Prevalent in Woodgate’s art is the idea of displacement. When she positions something like poetry in an unexpected place such as inside clothing, people can’t help but confront the often-overlooked genre.
source: miaminewtimes
O, Miami: Poetry tags (04:34)
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“Places and Objects are alive, we make them alive, they tell our stories and tales.
Sewing poems in clothes in a way is giving the garments a voice.”
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