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Tiny Sketchbook Project: A Two-Page Spread
Almost finished. A two-page spread from my Tiny Sketchbook for the Tiny Sketchbook Project touring exhibition. I’m sending this from The Forest of Souls, where I’m holed-up writing my next very long blog.
The Tiny Sketchbook Project – Some of the Eco Prints
A couple of shots of the tiny eco prints I’ve been making for The Tiny Sketchbook Project that’s touring Brooklyn/London/Paris later in the year. These are botanical prints from leaves gathered in my garden last autumn. The group picture is … Continue reading
Mark Making, The Zen of Seeing, the Byzantine Monocondyle and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Warning: really long blog coming up. (I had to do a really long poetic walk this time). The quote opening my blog of 29 August was from The Zen of Seeing: Frederick Franck. Intrigued, I sent for the book. In parallel … Continue reading
Posted in Aesthetics, Art, Blogging, Christian writing, Creativity, Drawing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Printmaking, Science, spirituality, Walking, Walking Art, Writing
Tagged Automatic Writing, Bhagavad Gita, Byzance, Calligraphy, Drawing, Frederick Franck, Graph Theory, Krsna, Leonhard Euler, Mark Making, meditation, Mobius Strip, Monocondyle, Paul Klee, Poetic Mapping, Rust Printing, Rust Printing on Silk, Seven Bridges of Konigsberg, Stéphanie Devaux Textus, Tommy Wasserman, Tomography, Topology, Upanishads, Zen
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Black Bean Dye and Black Bean Soup
“Beans, you know, are beautifully shaped, like a new church, like modern architecture, like a planned city” ― Janet Frame, Scented Gardens for the Blind My love affair with Titanium oxalate continues … In my search for blue, I’ve wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Vegetarianism
Tagged Alum Mordant, Black Bean Dye, Black Bean Soup, Black Bean Soup Recipe, Black Bean Sweet Potato and Quince Soup, Botanical Dyeing, Natural Dyeing, Natural Dyeing with Cottons, Natural Dyeing with Silk, Titanium oxalate Mordant
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A Titanic Love Affair, Horse Chestnut Husk Dye and Mordanting with Moses the Chemist
My titanic love affair has little to do with those 12 sprogs/pre-Olympian gods of Uranus, less still the ill-fated ship of that name. I’m in love with the oxalate of a mineral element, Titanium Oxalate (C4O8Ti) which is a new … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian writing, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Opera, Science, Singing, spirituality
Tagged Birgit Nillson, Creed Cornwall, Eco Dyeing, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks, Eco Dyeing with Horse Chestnut Husks and Titanium oxalate as a Mordant, King Mark, Klaproth, Liebestod, Phenolphthalein, Rod of Aaron, Saxon Invasion, St Crida, Staff of Moses, Titanium oxalate, Titanium oxalate as a mordant, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, William Gregor
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Judas Basket, Magnetic Thinking, The Flowers of Evil and Eco-Dyeing with Wisteria
“I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. ” ~Frederick Franck, The Zen of Seeing. I like … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Mixed Media, spirituality
Tagged Basketry, Basketry with Wisteria, Baudelaire, Bowls, Correspondances, Drawing, Dyeing with Wisteria, Eco Dyeing with Wisteria, Eco Printing, God's Eye Basketry, Gospel of Judas, Jesus of Nazareth, Judas Iscariot, Les Fleurs du Mal, Nag Hammadi
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A First Try at Eco-Dyeing with Staghorn Sumac (Rhus Typhina)
I was delighted, when we first came in May last year to inspect what was to become our new home, to find no less than four mature Staghorn Sumac trees flourishing in the garden, for I knew Sumac to be … Continue reading
New Departures in Eco Printing – Impressures Negative Realities and Graphic Notation
More eco prints on watercolour paper. The deep brown-black of the sumac is the actual leaf. It fused with the paper because I made an extra-tight sandwich of the materials and steamed it for a longer period of time in … Continue reading
