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Cajón de sastre

Cajón de sastre is a small independent publishing project based in Bogotá, Colombia. We are interested in projects linking literature, ecology and art. Our books explore local narratives, collective experimentation and visual languages. Cajón de sastre understands editing as a research process.
Escrituras para la colectividad y el paisaje
Cajón de sastre & guion bajo, Escrituras para la colectividad y el paisaje, Cajón de sastre, 2024 © Cajón de sastre & guion bajo

Collective writing methodology inspired in nature.

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Huecos en la textura del tiempo
William Blake, Huecos en la textura del tiempo, Cajón de sastre, 2025 © William Blake

Holes in the texture of time is an anthology of William Blake with different fragments of his prophetic texts that are organized as a biography of the author.

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Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea
Yuliana Ortiz, Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea, Cajón de sastre, 2024 © Yuliana Ortiz

A poetry book by Equatorian writer Yuliana Ortiz about the island in the Pacific coast where she was born. Limones, the island, does not appear in offical maps.

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La velocidad y la opacidad
Catalina Vargas & María Jimena Sánchez, La velocidad y la opacidad, Cajón de sastre, 2025 © Catalina Vargas & María Jimena Sánchez

A long visual poem about velocity in the oneiric realms.

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Partituras de huesos: notas para una lectura del presente
Luisa Ungar, Partituras de huesos: notas para una lectura del presente, Cajón de sastre, 2025 © Luisa Ungar

The book is Score of Bones (Notes for a Reading of the Present) is a silent book containing a series of drawings depicting vestiges and small bone fragments alluding to music partitures or some sort of secret code to be deciphered. The book resonates silently. The compositions of bones mysteriously activate our points of view and our ways of listening in the present.

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