GARLAND MAGAZINE - BILUMS AND BILAS
Garland is a platform for thoughtful writing about beautiful objects made today across the wider world. It is through these objects that cultures are made, by hand, every day.
We are delighted to be featured in their current issue: Craft Currencies.
This issue reveals old and new ways of making value for our world. As finance becomes ever more abstract, controlled by algorithms beyond our understanding, we are prompted to return to the primary role of money as a means of connecting people together.
This issue features stories of objects that we use to transact our everyday life: exchanging, sustaining and growing value. These include objects we can directly use in the place of money for social trades. Writers tell of objects we care for, as in the simple act of polishing. And they reflect on everyday objects we chose to elevate by placing them in the art gallery. Together, these stories remind us that value is something we can create with our own hands.
