Softly to Pip — Aglennco

Softly to Pip is a project involving printmaking, illustration, writing, weaving, and embroidery. A series of 9 cyanotypes on cotton provide the basis of the project, containing fictional letters between two women who nearly fall in love in a distant future. The details of the story are filled in through a variety of silkscreen, risograph, and woven ephemera that fill in the gaps of their near romance.

In addition to science fiction romance, Softly to Pip is an exploration of an optimistic queer future where the lines between craft, technology, and nature are impossible to untangle. It is specifically interested in futures where lives are long, capitalist labor is absent, and defining “the human” is tricky.

Excerpts of objects from Softly to Pip are shown below.