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Waste No More

The cloth works of the Waste No More project are textile’s version of a modernist painting. Luminous, layered, gestural. The abstract shapes seem to hover, suspended in the barest suggestion of a warp...

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Soil Revolution

Nature is full of cycles. Plants and animals are born, grow, reproduce, and die, returning to the earth from which all life springs. The carbon cycle moves molecules through and between ancient carbon...

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Traceability of Seed to Stitch

The moment we put on clothing there is a shift from individual to connected member of society. Cloth connects our bodies and minds to the group of makers that have brought each garment to life. The...

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Gradients of Blue: Beyond the Earth

It was never my intention to think about mountains, the sea, or the sky. It is just that they were there and I was desperate. I spent my youth many miles from the mountains and further from the salty...

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A Blue of Bioluminescence

Photo by Jeffrey Kosiorek Photo by Margaret LeJeune THAT SUMMER CHANGED THE WAY I THOUGHT ABOUT THE OCEAN. Under a waxing moon, my partner and I sailed our 37-foot sailboat, Bear, down the Chesapeake...

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A Sound of Blue: Familiar Frequencies

Photo by Taylor Aldridge. Sound by Ash Arder. Sometimes my heart is tuned to a frequency that makes my body vulnerable. The Blues show me how to make this condition - this visceral reality - into...

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Blue Continuum

The journey to create this long blue swath of cloth is a marker of time, of confusion, of epiphanies, of physical pain, of endurance, of curiosity. Photo by Sarah Remington CloseBlue Continuum>...

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The Story of a Blue Mushroom

Photo by Fiona Ross / @fungi_fee Photo by Fiona Ross / @fungi_fee Photo by Dr. Patrick Hickey The story of how I met the blue mushroom starts with growing up in Latvia, a country where the national...

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Why, Blue?

Photo by Sonja Dahl Photo by Sonja Dahl Photo by Sonja Dahl Why blue?  This question vexed my early years of devotion to indigo dye. I wanted to put everything into the dye vat, to make my whole world...

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Beyond the Blueness

Photo by François Goudier I think of myself more as a farmer and a nurturer than as a dyer, because long before the blue colours ever appear, I must grow the primary material and transform it. Photo...

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