Madeleine Morley Madeleine Morley

The Haunting of Epson

In my ghost story, mysterious fingerprints begin to appear on pages from an Epson printer, spurring an investigation into histories of thwarted labor strikes, technological obsolesce, and sheet catchers — women hired hired by printing houses in the late 19th and early 20th.

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Madeleine Morley Madeleine Morley

Introductory Essay for MJKVDL 2021

Highly systematic and rule-driven with a modernist ethos, architect turned designer Mark Jan Krayenhoff van de Leur takes a deeply personal approach to fashion. I wrote the essay for his latest “anti-look book.”

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Madeleine Morley Madeleine Morley

The Cost of Free Love and the Women Who Bore It

Searching for the women involved with poster-making during Haight Ashbury’s “swinging sixties,” I encountered another picture of that time and its design, as well as what might have been.

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All You Can Eat: An Interview with Artist Duo Cooking Sections

Cooking Sections make the politics of food visible, whether they’re serving mussels on a beach in California, or interrogating the tenuous labelling of salmon. I spoke to the pair about the ethics of consumption and building alternative futures.

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