It’s been a hard week. I’ve struggled with warping my new loom, and the power in my studio was out for a few days. Work has also been very stressful, leading to a non-ideal art environment. I did some writing, and I got the loom working, but since this is my last week in SPAR, I wanted to show something a little more private.

My musical recommendation for the week is one of my very favorite albums, Songs for the Dawn of Peace by Leon Lishner. Recorded after World War II, it’s a surprisingly wide collection of songs, mostly those of armed resistance, from Jewish partisans to to Italian antifascists to Chinese nationalists and communists. I think it speaks both the shock and attempts of optimism from that age, when Fascism was though to have been defeated, and can be very inspiring today.