General updates on the project
Last week I found some time to perform some preliminary studies on a sample of indigo-dyed cotton fabric. I first took some representative optical microscope images to get a sense of the distribution of dye in the cotton fibers. Below left is an image at 103x and on the right an image at 1010x. System… Continue reading indigo up close
I really wanted to take advantage of the winter holiday break to get a solid start on the woven component(s) for this project, which meant choosing and preparing yarns, dressing the loom, starting the cloth, and getting into a steady groove to weave some yardage. After a whirlwind trip to Washington DC at the end… Continue reading ready set go…
With a tool like a loom, oftentimes the primary barrier to starting a new project is the need to finish a previous project. This week I finally finished a small scarf project that I started back in August, using naturally dyed wool yarns I brought back from Iceland. My loom is finally free!
The intermateriality:redox installation project builds on some small-scale studies I started last summer. Two of the studies will be shown in an exhibition at Blue Line Arts in Roseville, CA in Jan-Feb 2020. Intermateriality Study 1 (left) / Intermateriality Study 2 (right); Hideo Mabuchi (2019)
Where to begin? I got the good news about receiving a McMurtry Arts Initiative Grant for this project on 22 October 2019, and the actual funds transfer took place just at the end of November. Today it's 11 December, autumn quarter is winding down and we're heading into the winter holiday break. In my project… Continue reading timeline
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