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...
View ArticleSoil 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...
View ArticleTraceability 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...
View ArticleGradients 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleBlue 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>...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhy, 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...
View ArticleBeyond 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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