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🗣️ Fire Ecology includes Be Oakley’s “Failure as Futuremaking,” the last in a long line of Artists’ Pages and Projects in Art Papers over the years. “Failure as Futuremaking” functions as an essay and a demonstration of Oakley’s practice, which includes the making of “Protest Fonts,” typefaces created based on the distinct handmade signage from various protests.

💭 “Failure as Futuremaking” confronts the inadequacy of our conceptions of “success” and “failure,” arguing that we have to recognize the necessity, but also the beauty, in failure to expand possibilities and move toward liberation.

🔤 Oakley’s typeface, inspired by signs from the 2022–2023 RISD Teamsters and New School Adjunct strikes, is used throughout the Fire Ecology issue to title each text, infusing Oakley’s meditations into the core of what the issue articulates.

The issue is offered free of charge, but the edition is limited.

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