Hand dyed medicinal silks - with woad, buckthorn, weld and madder. Available to purchase in sizes 50x50cm and 50x80cm. Part of an ongoing textile practice with natural dye, slow alchemy and adornment.
Desert Blanket is a textile made from the gatherings of community and land enquiry into processes of forgiveness, apology and reconciliation in Death Valley, Timbisha Lands, CA.
Each journey with the land brings its own teaching as well as its own process of integration. Stitching and making, imbuing material with prayer and intention, directing it through the hand-heart axis, as a mode of integration or incorporation. Bringing the body of the land into the body of heart flesh mind and ultimately the body of the community.
Returning from desert ceremony I found all my hand dyed materials at the bottom of my rucksack. Shades of madder and buckthorn from mossy stoney England - plants from one land appearing as the colours of another land...
The desert told how once it had been an ocean, and one day the song of the rivers was given, so the valley filled up with water once again and it was imagined that there was enough, enough, enough for all the animals, for all the beings, for all...
Materials: hand-dyed buckthorn and madder on silk and cotton, embroidered found materials.