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ISSUE 11.2: On the Mend

Axon: Creative Explorations Vol 11, No 2, December 2021

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There has been a growing creative interest and scholarly engagement with practices and frameworks of care and repair and their real and implied relationship to breakage and acts of restoration. While not specifically directed at the year that was 2020, there are many ways in which the worlds in which we now live might be in need of mending. And how might we envisage recovery? This issue takes a broad interpretation of the theme and submissions explore, challenge and respond in a multitude of ways.

 

Edited by Ursula K Frederick, Tracy Ireland, Kerry Martin and Monica Andrew

Image: Tamar MacLellan and Philippa Wood, detail of a C6 envelope from their project Good Companions, 2021
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Contents

We All Need a Break: Introducing ‘On The Mend’
Introduction by Ursula K Frederick, Tracy Ireland, Monica Andrew, Kerry Martin
Inbow
Creative work by Cassandra Atherton
Apocalypse(s)
Creative work by Hannah Macauley-Gierhart
Up Cycle
Creative work by Jacqui Malins
Landscape Reconstruction
Creative work by Michele England
2 Poems
Creative work by Gail Pittaway
2 Poems
Creative work by Paul Collis
Mend that: A Conversation
Creative work by Paul Collis, Jen Crawford
Who Cares, Why and How: What kind of care can we expect during the COVID-19 Pandemic?
Essay by Dominic Amerena
Too Many Cocks: On the (im)possibility of graffiti re-writing colonial narratives
Essay by Ursula K Frederick, Tracy Ireland
2 Poems
Creative work by Lucy Dougan
The Point of the Thing
Creative work by Gemma Nisbet
Breaking/Un-breaking, Un-making/Making
Essay by Ashley Eriksmoen
The Eiderdowns
Essay by Jane Downing
Healing for Fragile Forms of Being
Creative work by Alexis Fedorjaczenko
3 Poems
Creative work by Adam Day
[Thread]baring my soul: Regrets and reparation
Essay by Kerry Martin
Writing creatively about cancer
Essay by Heather Cameron
3 Poems
Creative work by Lucy Alexander
Solstice
Creative work by Eve Nuclfora
2 Poems
Creative work by Les Wicks
Advicecomics.tumblr.com and the Carnival of Care
Essay by Penelope Russon
Good Companions: The role of creative practice in re-establishing a creative partnership during and beyond a global pandemic
Creative work by Tamar MacLellan, Philippa Wood
A Matter of Balance: Visual Arts in the Australian Defence Force ARRTS Program
Essay by Vahri McKenzie, Caren Florance
Making Mending Visible
Essay by Monica Andrew
Visible Stitches: Towards an aesthetics of repair
Essay by Susie Campbell
Stitching Art Practice: As action and metaphor for care and repair
Essay by Lizzie Buckmaster Dove
When our world breaks, we bend with it
Essay by Sandra Renew
Stitches for survivable futures
Essay by Sera Waters