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This City Has Sucked Me Dry.

"This City Has Sucked Me Dry", Collage, 2016.

"Om in Vic Park". Collage, 2017.

2017 Collage "Om in Vic Park", Commission by City of Kitchener

KW Zine Library Titles

Here are the current titles in the KW 'zine library! If you would like to submit a zine, or learn more about the library, please write to me! ellieanglin@gmail.com

Dream Visions : An Exhibition Of Collages by Ellie Anglin

At Jane Bond in Waterloo, from June 15th - july 20th

Frida Falls, digital print on wood, $100

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Collage Buttons, 2008 - 2015

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Collages by Ellie Anglin

Life Goals, 2014.

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Parkdale plaques

Throughout 2012, as part of the Parkdale BIA's community garden initiative, four new historical plaques were created and installed in Parkdale.

My friend and incredible artist Joel Hentges did the graphic design, and I wrote the copy and chose the photos.  I think they turned out really well, and it was so interesting to learn about Parkdale's history!  You can find them throughout Parkdale sprinkled around the Queen and Brock area, but you can also check them out here: 

This one is located on the South West corner of Queen and Elm Grove (by The Mascot). 

This one is located on the North East corner of Brock and Queen, by an umbrella tree.

This one is in front of 1313 Queen Street West (South side).  

This one is in the garden beside the Coffee Tyme where old men sit silently sipping coffee all day.

Wish I knew how to post the better quality versions of these on here, because I am really proud of what I wrote - I even slipped a couple of jokes in them. When I finished working at the BIA, I felt kind of bad about myself because they gave me a really wonderful opportunity to fill in as Executive Director over the summer, and my ol' self esteem issues made me feel like I was really incompetent, but whenever I see these plaques, I remember that I did do at least one good thing for Parkdale, and they'll be there for a couple of years at least.  They don't have our names on them, but I know who made them!  Next time you're in Parkdale, take a look!

Emily Anglin

A poem by Emily Anglin.

Material

When you have swaddled your head in vermillion

linen to block a glint that widens like a coo

into a dim room striped with amber light;

when you have lain below a sink, hooded by an apron of

mauve lace, and peeped through eyelets at high panes

dappled with yellow and lime;

when you have sat on a bathing house step in the late-winter sun

and bundled your brow in a rough wool scarf

steeped to a sea green as the wind rushes;

when you have leaned against the bleached stone lion that guards

the coast, and wound yourself in sacking, 

binding your own wrappings

with twine,

as the gusts lift past a scrubbed seawall—then,

set,

bonneted,

tied

and laid out on the cool salt shore,

flat under bright sun you can slowly tune

a white light for shut lids to become.

Tender Buttons Launch

I am proud to announce that my first book, for which I received the TAC grant for Emerging Artists, is being launched this weekend!

The book is called Tender Buttons, and it is a fusion of flash fiction and collage. Please go here if you want to learn more about Tender Buttons.

If you are in Toronto this week/end, I would love it if you would come help me celebrate. 

On Thursday November 29I will be reading Tender Buttons, accompanied by projections of the collages at the Neck of the Woods Art Show at the Norman Felix Gallery (627 Queen St West, Toronto), from 7 to 11 pm.

On Saturday December 1st, 2012, I will be displaying and selling Tender Buttons and my 2010 ‘zine Kitty Doodles as part of the Parkdale Bazaar at St. John’s Church at 186 Cowan Avenue, from 11am – 5pm

If you ain't in Toronto, or otherwise can’t make it but would still like to buy a copy of Tender Buttons, it can be purchased:

1)      by writing to me (ellieanglin@gmail.com)
2)      in store at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas Street W, Toronto)
3)      or from my Etsy shop (I’ll mail it to you and seal it with a kiss!)

Each copy is $12, and is signed, numbered, and comes with it's own one-of-a-kind collaged dust sleeve. Postage is $3.

Thanks so much y'all!  I love you!
Xoxo,

Ellie.

About Tender Buttons

Tender Buttons is a fusion of collage and flash fiction and was lovingly created by Ellie Anglin. Each full-colour booklet is numbered, signed and hand-bound by the artist, and has a one-of-a-kind collaged book sleeve.

“After surviving a mysterious and dark childhood, an emotionally stunted narrator struggles with mental illness, self-injury, and to reconcile her queerness with her strange spiritualism.  Our deeply repressed and simple heroine’s true sadness is only glimpsed at through frequent cracks in the delirious, slavish narrative about her prized Button Collection. The accompanying collages serve to open these cracks wider, giving a literal glimpse of her true desperation. If you like flash fiction, collage, and strange, sad women, Tender Buttons might be the one for you.”

Self-Published in Toronto, Ontario in 2012. 

76 pp. ISBN # 978-0-9879898-0-2, $12

Tender Buttons can be purchased from Ellie at ‘zine and art shows throughout the city, as well as at Art Metropole (1490 Dundas Street W, Toronto), or online at etsy.com/shop/ellieanglin

Get Ya Tenda Buttons Heah!

Tender Buttons now available in my Etsy Store.

Or directly here!

Hot Off The Press

These twenty tender booklets are all buttoned up, ready to go off to some publishers in the hopes that someone will help me to make more of these little Tender Buttons.  They each have their own individual dust vest - not quite a jacket.  I am very happy with how they turned out.  Thanks to everyone for your support.

Two Women

My 100 word story that will be featured in the upcoming collection 100X100, published by LA's Marco Polo Arts Magazine.  

Two Women: 

They met working in the Margarine Factory – Irene worked there from 1975 to 1990 and Helen from 1967 to 1992. They both loved The Family Circus cartoons so they became friendly.  Helen’s biggest pet peeve was when people rode their bicycles on the sidewalk and would come swooping up behind them when they walked home at night and would nearly give them their death of fright.  Irene was very honest and considered even sarcasm to be lying. For the sake of economy they shared an apartment together until in 1992 when Helen died as a flower does: petal by petal.  

More New Collages!

"Women in Print", for Tender Buttons, 2012

"Mother", for Tender Buttons, 2012.

 "Anna Nicole Smith", for Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Mad Love at ValuMart" in the inaugural issue of fuss magazine

There's a great new indie/arts/culture magazine in Waterloo called Fuss Magazine!

You can pick it up at all the KW cool stops, or read it online HERE.  My short fiction "Mad Love at ValuMart" is on page 7.  Mad props to Lisa Olsen for the great new mag!!

For Betty

You died as a flower does:

petal by petal.  

When my body returns to clay 

I hope to feel your fur once again

with my celestial hand. 

My hand is not unlike your paw.

Your paw is not unlike a gentle budding branch.

Betty Anglin, 1998 - 2012.

May you rest peacefully, you were the delight of my heart and days.

On The Iran-Contra Affair, On Contraception

On the Iran-Contra Affair:  

I ran, contra – clockwise to the bar to get out of a conversation about this at my last lunch meeting.

Doing a tequila shot by yourself is depressing. The ritual of the salt lick and the lemon is really meant to be a social thing. I just love doing shots. I love the Lil Jon feat. LMFAO song “Shots”.

A co-worker gave me the nickname Shotsy.  I wonder if by doing so he’s subtly casting doubt on my professionalism but it’s worth it to me because having a nick name makes me feel like one of the gang.  And sometimes at lunch meetings now my co-workers buy shots for me as a gag. 

On Contraception:

Lezzzbians don’t need contraception but I still hope for an accident. I’d cut out the crack dope smack coke pills thrills chills AAAAAAND frills if I conceived. Do you think it would still be considered an immaculate conception if it was the result of finger banging and muff diving? 

Tender Buttons, Snipperdoodles 2012

"Build the City of God", 201

"Homo", 2012

"horses?", 2008

"By Itself", 2012.

"Kill all Artists", 2010.

"Keep Parkdale Weird", 2012.

"HER FACE", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Sunday Night Button Party" from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Storm Approaches", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Colours", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"My Life with Biscuits", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Please", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Reaching", from Tender Buttons, 2012. 

"Stage Life", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"God Speaks to Me", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Healed", from Tender Buttons, 2012. 

"GED", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Mistress of Her Domain", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Anything is Bearable", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Cat Fancy", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Covetousness", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"Aloe", from Tender Buttons, 2012.

"For Britney Spears 1", 2008 - 2012.

"For Britney Spears 2", 2008 - 2012.

A scan of the lock of my hair that I buried with Betty, 2012.