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Kia ora! I'm so glad you've signed up for the Pao, a paid-only Wednesday Weekly creative-collage-inspiration-mash-up. I'm looking forward to sharing with you some of the cool things I'm doing and have learned in my own artistic practice, especially writing but not just writing. Zine-making, art, bookbinding, sewing, knitting, journaling, and the collision of joy that often follows when we make things with our hands. As I wrote in The Spinoff:

Creating is a rebellion against the futility of the quotidian, against the insult of waste. Art sees beauty everywhere, even in the fire that burned everything down.

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Arohanui

Nadine x