Natural Exploration
My process is increasingly material based, as I expand my practice to prioritise exploration, sustainability, location, and process . How do my pigments and materials, foraged from my surrounding sites, begin to represent not only pigment but changes in season, climate, and ecology? As my environments shift in this ever-changing period of my life, between home in the Pacific North-west, to school in New England, so all the new locations I am evisiting, I am choosing to document these experiences through material use and process. The unique ephermal qualities of of homemade materials are a reminder of the temporality of these phases in life.
I am currently exploring:
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Pigments derived from foraged plants, and their unique behaviors
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Natural foraged dyes and ecoprinting on paper and textiles
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Experimental plant fibre processing for paper making
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Organic material preservation (leaves, pigments, barks)
Bound Botany select spreads showing ecoprints and handmade mulberry and milkweed papers.
Papermaking and Ecoprint Experiments
Natural Inks Swatches