Using gravity to help strip the fleshy bits from the fiber makes sense. I need to make a board like this…
Follow The Thread to Meatpacking District
Come release a little anxiety in my Emotional Baggage Carts 🛒 installed on the streets of NYC for Follow The Thread. Curated by @ivyjeannebrowngallery
➡️ OUTDOOR INSTALLATION
MEATPACKING PLAZA
675 Hudson Street
New York NYC
For FOLLOW THE THREAD
promoted by @artemorbida
Rope Making Process
Ive been immersing myself in these rope making process videos. Even McCarty is now sending them to me, including this one….
St. Croix Is Showing Up
The local flora and fauna is showing up in my work… I am exited to see what this opens up for me. New New New…
Sailing Knots
I am using the collective knowledge of all my random interests to create art, including sailing knots….
World of Threads Festival
Ive applied to World of Threads Festival a few times in the past and was not accepted. This year is different, I finally was accepted.
I am please to share that part of my microagressions installation, Blackity Black Blanket Ladders will be on display along with hundreds of other international fiber artists.
Bottom line… try and if you don’t succeed, try again. Eventually, you will hit your mark.
Ive already booked my flight to attend the opening reception in Oakville Canada.
World of Threads Festival
Exhibition Dates: October 10 – December 17, 2023
Opening Reception: October 14, 2023, 1:00-3:00pm
Location: Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre; 2302 Bridge Rd, Oakville, ON L6L 3L5, Canada
Bottlecap Pearls = Pony Beads
Paper Making Process
Making Cordage from Yucca plants
I’ve got plenty of Yucca plants. And after spending the cordage workshop at St. Georges Botanical Garden, I know how to process the fibers. The only thing I’m not so sure about, is the chewing part. I’ll leave that part alone.
St. Georges Botanical Garden Fiber Workshops
I’m a fiber artist who processes repurposed materials. Now that I am on St Croix, I am itching to explore the abundance of natural fibers just outside my door, palms, coconut, vines, bamboo, to name a few. Last month, St. Georges Botanical Garden hosted three natural fiber workshops using materials sources from their garden. Naturally, I showed up ready to learn and experiment.
This is how it went
Rope making using invasive snake plants.
Paper making is sparking new ideas.
And I spent a morning palm weaving…
Ive been thinking incorporating these experiments into my practice and new ideas are percolating. Meanwhile, I am building a tool kit of garden sheers, gloves, buckets, and bins to process natural fibers at Sky Garden Retreat in St. Croix.