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New Mallet

Friday, March 23, 2012

I’ve been reading up on calendaring indigo dyed fabrics in this great book “Imprints on Cloth : 18 years of Field Research among the Miao People of Guizhou, China.” A common thread between the works of many different communities is a calendaring stage, where the fabric is pounded and smoothed with a big wooden mallet, [...]

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Flaros : Logo Design

Thursday, March 22, 2012

My friend Ariadni met with me a couple weeks ago to talk about her new business importing goods from Greece. She showed me piles of beautiful sandals, woven towels, pillows and photographs from her time there, asking me to put together a logo for her business, Flaros. I was blown away by these old structures, [...]

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Orchid

Monday, December 12, 2011

Been thinking about orchids this past week. In June, I love wandering around in the woods in Vermont looking for them. There is one stretch of stream in the kingdom that just wanders around and back onto itself, creating little islands and rivulets among the roots of old cedar. There are plants that pop up [...]

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Triangles

Thursday, December 1, 2011

I’ve been feverish recently, thinking about the ways that equilateral triangles interact with each other, and can be created by shearing off the corner of a cube, then re-assembled into different patterns. Just wanted to show it explored a few different ways: as a ceiling, shade canopy and as a scarf. Made all these in [...]

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Spore prints

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Irene brought huge amounts of rain to Vermont and the forests are booming with mushrooms. I’ve been wandering and collecting. Leaving the caps on a piece of paper overnight, spores fall into different patterns depending on the structure of the gills.

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