Softly to Pip Ephemera

Softly to Pip is a project involving printmaking, illustration, writing, weaving, and embroidery. The anchor for the story is a series of 9 cyanotypes on cotton provide that contain letters between two women who nearly fall in love in a distant future. 

In addition to science fiction romance, Softly to Pip is an exploration of an optimistic queer future where the lines between craft, technology, and nature are impossible to untangle. It is specifically interested in futures where lives are long, capitalist labor is absent, and defining “the human” is tricky.

This is a collection of flat files of the paper goods. The ephemera and the textile pieces were installed at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary, AB in 2019 as part of my MFA thesis exhibition. If you would like to see photos of the installation and photos of the weavings, you can see them here, on my website: http://aglennco.com/softly-to-pip

If you are interested in purchasing physical copies of some of these items, please reach out. I sell risograph prints of the funeral cards, the weekly omen newsletter, and the nine letters. I sell silkscreen prints of the tender epilogues brochure.