The rest of us is a soft press fabrication by A Published Event. A sense of what remains when we are slowed by illness. Or hesitation. Or performance. Composed in lutruwita/Tasmania, each blanket is designed as a single page in an ongoing and open-ended book—a uniquely distributed, hand-held thanatological press for the living.
Oh, the body. What is pulsing now is felt in skeins. Prose. Essay. Other. Newly felt abrasions of illness. And mortality. The soreness of an eye. A grief. A heart.
In an intimate exchange of refuge and motility we unfold what we can. Seek to hold in reading. A truth that is also comfort. Agile. Unbound. This is love is it not? This thickness. This publishing as radical care.
Published as a weekly chronicle of illness and care, each blanket is unique and is knitted only once in skeins of extra-fine Australian merino jacquard knitted in a super-soft, luxurious woollen yarn; each blanket measures 185cm x 150cm and weighs approximately one kilo.
Given that each blanket is unique, we make an archival photograph of each edition before folding it into a bag, hand-dyed by us from plants growing in our garden near the banks of timtumili minanyi/River Derwent. We wrap each blanket in acid-free tissue and gently box for delivery via Australia Post. Each blanket is accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity. For long-lasting care, machine wash on cool/ delicate/wool setting (we have not tested this yet) or better still, hand wash with a gentle woolwash. Like all your special things, dry flat in the shade.
Contact us: info@therestofus.net