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Learning from Natural Fibers & Materials

02/28/2024

I’m teaching Natural Dyes 101 at on Saturday, April 13th. If you are interested in learning natural dye basics on fabric this is for you!! We will be exploring the soy milk and alum mordant processes, creating dye baths, using color modifiers and more! Link for sign up is my bio 🤍

02/10/2024

Dye garden of the past on 🎞️ dye plant recommendations for this year?

01/09/2024

Very excited for symposium It includes a film screening, speakers, clothing swap and more!! I’ll be showing our oyoo outfit pictured here during the fashion show + vending during the day! Check out the tickets on their website. This is a fiber event not to be missed 🤍🤍

01/02/2024

2023 started out challenging but it turned out to be a beautiful year. Thank you to everyone who has in one way or another supported my work lately. I’m so appreciative. Feeling more clear about what I’d like to accomplish than ever before and hoping to focus on what is really close to my heart in 2024. Looking forward to this garden season already 🧡

12/31/2023

Pokeweed (phytolacca americana) evolved in North America and is naturalized around the temperate world. They grow in the forest under-story and you may see one popping up in the garden since birds tend to spread their seeds.

Pokeberries contain the pigment betalain, giving them this color; but this color is sensitive to light and oxygen, meaning it often doesn’t last long.

When I tried to make a pokeberry lake it faded to an almost white-pink shade, so I made this illustration for my zine with fresh poke ink 💗💗

12/27/2023

Final project from my stay with the deep ecology fellowship at United Plant Savers. a zine that contains descriptions of plants I gathered and used to make watercolor paints, with illustrations painted in their respective colors.

experimenting with another way forward, making art materials by collaborating with plants rather the extractive methods which involve color made from fossils fuels. also, noting indigenous plant names on these pages to bring attention to their history and various ways of understanding plant value. small number of these are headed to ups 🌿🌿🌿

12/15/2023

winter warmer market is this sunday! I will have many wintery hues of scrunchies, eye pillows & more! come visit me + support many wonderful artists & small businesses 🤍

11/29/2023

Watercolor paints have a place in my heart as a medium I was obsessed with when I was younger, and creating them with natural dyes has clicked for me more than I expected. The physicality of grinding and mulling is very meditative.

The second photo is a drawing l made of swamp mallow in between dye sessions at UpS. It was special to find this plant (already in the seed cycle of its lifespan) at the sanctuary after I planted hibiscus myself this year ❤️‍🔥 Also, finished the piece with paint made from goldenrod & black walnut.

11/02/2023

two more photos from my residency 🕸️ I will be opening my web shop again soon with a limited stock of items, and will have plant-dyed goods at this year! Lastly, the reception for Entiwned at is this Saturday at 6pm, come check it out 🤍

11/01/2023

memories and evidence of my finding and noticing all kinds of light, living in correspondence to the shades of day&night, taking more photos than usual, drawing more than usual. spending my time all day with plants- learning and listening them, eventually making colors with them. so thankful to have had this opportunity, time & space. more to come of my deep ecology residency

10/05/2023

My textile piece “Cosmos” which is made with up cycled cotton printed with natural dyes, minerals and plants from my garden will part of the exhibition Entwined at beginning on October 19th. Excited to be part of this show all about human interconnection with nature and what that might mean. Rather than an opening there will be a closing reception on Nov. 4th, 6-9pm 💜

09/24/2023

Goldenrod & indigo moon bandana available in my web shop 🌛Photo for scale as this one is larger than the other moon bandanas.

Made with smooth, tightly woven organic cotton that stretches a bit and is very breathable, great for a light fall weather scarf. Also could be used as a small table cloth or an altar cloth 🕯️🌛Might be listing other variations of these I’ve made if there’s interest, let me know 💌

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