Saturday, 4 May 2019

Dyeing With The Landscape








Aspmayrhof – Hotel Amazonas, May 2019,  5:45min. 




Window Frame 
Textile Ca. 450cm x 28 cm (irregular pieces pinned together), Batik with corn leaves on hand woven linen, beeswax wood.






Barn Slits 
Batik with corn leaves on cotton and on machine woven and hand woven linen, beeswax,  wood boards (barn).


 Fool Moon exhibition view  (Photo: Margareth Kaserer)





Sleeping Tools


Scythe

 Slate board frame
 Halter
Wheel
Honey Frames 
Batik with corn leaves on cotton, machine woven and hand woven linen, 

Beeswax, tools 




Sleeping Tools


Slate board frame 
Halter
Wheel

Batik with corn leaves on cotton; on machine woven and hand woven linen, beeswax, tools.




Sleeping Tools 
Honey Frames 

Batik with corn leaves on cotton, machine woven and hand woven linen, 
Beeswax, honey frames (wood).







My Berlin studio moves to the Italian countryside for a residency at Hotel Amazonas near Bolzano (South Tyrol)
As always I am working with natural dyes mostly from locally found organic waste materials. 
This time the dye station runs on corn leaves, rust and urine from the host. The batik is performed with wax produced from the beehives of the hosts' father in law.  I am inspired by nature and its generous inhabitants. By manufactures, contemporary innovative and historical textiles from the region 'Süd Tirol'. As always performing the batik technique, which I learned from Mbye Ceesay in the Gambia and Bixa Batik in Indonesia and the way you learn by learning.

Visit the Fool Moon event on May 18th 
>> info 

With work by Artists in Residency:
Ada Van Hoorebeke (BE)  Karolina Daria Flora (PL/IS) Live Performance: Infinite Palace (AT) 
Guest of guest: Esra Altin 

Hand woven and machine woven linen  (1900 and 1930).