Photo by Molly Steele
“I have been wondering lately if craft is something that can exist except as a critique of capitalism; can craft exist in a world without capitalism? I believe that perhaps craft can be thought of as a form of life—one in which a person is fully engaged in the joyful creation of their own life.”
Laurin C Guthrie was born amongst the tall trees in 1989. Some call that place Palo Alto.
She seeks freedom through education and the reclamation of the means of living. She approaches craft and making as political acts, empowering people to break the rules of capitalism.
She is interested in the insidiousness of usable objects: How can an object invite, reinforce or even create behaviors and relationships? Handmade objects are a useful antidote to increasingly less tactile tools and more tenuous connections to making.
Today, she is a craftswoman, artist and scholar based in Portland, Oregon.