Tag Archives for natural dyes
Bill Morton | Tinctorium
Translator Bill Morton’s exhibition Tinctorium opens tomorrow night at 8 pm at Stride Gallery in Calgary, Alberta and runs until October 19, 2012. I feel privileged to have contributed a text for this exhibition of work by my friend and mentor Bill Morton. … Continue reading
Bill Morton exhibition opening soon…
Translator Last week I had the opportunity to take a few shots of Bill Morton at work on a new piece for his upcoming exhibtion Tinctorium, opening September 7 at Stride Gallery in Calgary. The exhibition will feature several new … Continue reading
ArtClothText | Best of 2011
Translator2011 was a busy year on ArtClothText and I was hard-pressed to pull only a few highlights to share with you this New Year’s Eve. I suppose a good place to start would be Studio Practice, a series of posts … Continue reading
enmeshed…
TranslatorA few months ago I started enmesh. Here are some of the things I’ve been posting there…
MoCC Portland Residency | Installation
Translator Installation of Recollect 2 was a breeze thanks to Kat Perez the exhibition coordinator. I was happy to have the work installed near my primary inspirations for this project – Laurie Herrick’s Purple Polychrome and Tree of Life. I … Continue reading
MoCC Portland Residency | Finishing
Translator Today was the day (after six final hours of weaving) to hem stitch then cut Recollect 2 from the loom. After some repairs and wet finishing it will be ready to hang tomorrow. Here are a couple images of … Continue reading
MoCC Portland Residency | Inertia
Translator Weaving continues this week. Slowly. I am aiming to cut the cloth from the loom no later than Thursday evening leaving a little time for finishing (overnight basically) before hanging in the gallery Friday afternoon. The finished work will … Continue reading
MoCC Portland Residency | From the loom…
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MoCC Portland Residency | Pattern variation
Translator I began weaving today with a tie up composed of three interleaved sequences of random integers. The plan is to change the tie-up each time I run out of treadling variations (approximately once a day). The blocks in the … Continue reading
MoCC Portland Residency | Threading
Translator Four-hundred forty done, three-hundred twenty left to thread. Weaving begins tomorrow.