This is my old Reliable Velocity iron. It has been reliable but after 5 years I have worn it out. It is not worth repairing, the cost of which would include having to ship it both ways across the country. It is no longer made and has been replaced by an updated model. This is […]
Read More...I have stitched the last band on each of the 4 tree cloths. Each cloth documents the growth of the tree over one year. The cloth is a chromatic record of biological processes. The colours and their sequence are different on each cloth.
Read More...After sampling… …I used the colour studies to find matching coloured threads… …and headed outside to stitch on the cloth.
Read More...Throughout this term of my studies I had continued to move along about 8 other dialogues out in the forest that I had established during the previous term. By the end of the winter term I decided my final degree exhibition would be about the tree cloths – a big decisions when I still had […]
Read More...The obvious response was to repair and mend the holes and tears in the tree cloths. Mending techniques by their nature aim to be invisible so this would be a necessary but not obvious response. I needed to do something more to the tree cloths.
Read More...I am at the stage in my dialogue with the trees where it is my turn to respond. I need to make a mark reflecting the development of my relationship with these trees. I sampled dyeing with a Cedar branch extraction but wasn’t enamoured with the colour nor the overall even covering of the tree’s marks. Next I […]
Read More...After noticing Cedar stems left a print on cotton, I decided to make a dye with them. I collected windfall branches, cut them into small pieces…. …brought them to a boil, simmered for 2 hours then left the pot to cool overnight. I poured off the liquid as the 1st extraction and repeated the process twice more, making 2nd […]
Read More...After washing and ironing the eco-printed samples… ..i found them uninspiring. This Cedar stem showed the most potential as a dye source. I tore off pieces of the Cedar tree cloth and soaked them in a number of different pre-mordants,sea water… … almond milk and ash water. Each sample was coded with the different combinations of pre-mordants it […]
Read More...In March 2011, after 14 months, I took the tree cloths off the trees, laid them on the grass to dry then brought them inside. They were washed and ironed. Were these domestic activities to be my response in the dialogue? Each tree made distinctively different marks. I left the cloths up on the wall for quite a while, […]
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