2024 Praxis Textile Workshop Residency
Lichen Repeat Pattern and Braid w/ blue (indigo), yellow (Osage), and green (Osage over dyed with indigo).
Work-in-progress.
Work-in-progress.
Text weaving from: Orion Magazine, Assistant Editor Scott Gast speaks with Kathleen Dean Moore about her September/October 2014 article for Orion, “The Rules of the River,” which links observations from the natural world with the fight against business as usual.
"And here’s the point: no one pattern continues indefinitely; it always gives way to another. When there are so many obstacles and islands that a channel can no longer carry all its water and sediment, it crosses a stability threshold and the current carves a different direction. The change is usually sudden, often dramatic, the hydrologist said, a process called avulsion."
Work-in-progress.
"And here’s the point: no one pattern continues indefinitely; it always gives way to another. When there are so many obstacles and islands that a channel can no longer carry all its water and sediment, it crosses a stability threshold and the current carves a different direction. The change is usually sudden, often dramatic, the hydrologist said, a process called avulsion."
Work-in-progress.
Textile newly cut off on the TC2 Jacquard loom:
TOP IMAGE- Fibonacci Sequence in yellow (Osage), blue (indigo), and green (Osage over dyed with indigo).
BOTTOM IMAGE- Boundary Pass, Pacific Northwest: Puget Sound to the Canadian Border, NOAA Chart.
Work-in-progress.
TOP IMAGE- Fibonacci Sequence in yellow (Osage), blue (indigo), and green (Osage over dyed with indigo).
BOTTOM IMAGE- Boundary Pass, Pacific Northwest: Puget Sound to the Canadian Border, NOAA Chart.
Work-in-progress.
TOP IMAGE- Willamette River Portland to Walnut Eddy, NOAA Chart, in yellow (Osage) and pink (cochineal), Mexican Border to Dixon Entrance, NOAA Chart, in yellow (Osage) and green (Osage over dyed with indigo), &
BOTTOM IMAGE- Lichen Repeat Pattern in yellow (Osage), pink (cochineal), and green (Osage over dyed with indigo).
Work-in-progress.
BOTTOM IMAGE- Lichen Repeat Pattern in yellow (Osage), pink (cochineal), and green (Osage over dyed with indigo).
Work-in-progress.
LOOM DETAIL: Willamette River Portland to Walnut Eddy, NOAA Chart, in yellow (Osage) and pink (cochineal).
Work-in-progress.
Work-in-progress.