"With no access to my paper studio, I resorted to innovation. Making a mold and deckle from an old canvas, producing waste paper pulp to combine with Banana leaf pulp taken from my houseplants, and mono printing surface textures on the resulting paper."
“Mulberry lace papers made through manipulation of water drops”
"Surface~ (beneath the....) Integration is invaluable."
"In the chapter of Moby Dick titled 'The Mat-Maker,' Ishmael theorizes that the three components of weaving: warp, woof and shuttle, can represent three forces of life: necessity, free will and chance. He concludes that although all three are 'interweavingly working together...chance has the last featuring blow at events.'"
"In the chapter of Moby Dick titled 'The Mat-Maker,' Ishmael theorizes that the three components of weaving: warp, woof and shuttle, can represent three forces of life: necessity, free will and chance. He concludes that although all three are 'interweavingly working together...chance has the last featuring blow at events.'"
"Flax, abaca, and mystery fiber"
The translucent sheet reads as follows:
"Don’t be afraid of me
(black and yellow fight back)
Weld
summer harvest
on wool twill that shifts like a dancing child
Cooked fiber
paper grips on
Stretching onto
only when wet.
You can colors by plant name
But fear the feeling in your body.
Don’t be afraid of me
They say.
Might you then be scared
of showing the back or
do you rest in knowing that it too
can hold you?"
8 hour flax, 4 hour abaca, IU color field wield (reseda) dyed wool twill with ammonia, madder dyed linen, sitelab printed silk organza, thread, hobby lobby bias tape.
The translucent sheet reads as follows:
"Don’t be afraid of me
(black and yellow fight back)
Weld
summer harvest
on wool twill that shifts like a dancing child
Cooked fiber
paper grips on
Stretching onto
only when wet.
You can colors by plant name
But fear the feeling in your body.
Don’t be afraid of me
They say.
Might you then be scared
of showing the back or
do you rest in knowing that it too
can hold you?"
8 hour flax, 4 hour abaca, IU color field wield (reseda) dyed wool twill with ammonia, madder dyed linen, sitelab printed silk organza, thread, hobby lobby bias tape.
"There are little bits of past life hovering below our surface. Now and then they leach through to color our world and our work. Keys to doors that are long gone may still be with us but does it matter now if they were doors that we opened or ones that we locked shut?"
