Mobile Tinctorium

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Mobile Tinctorium is an itinerant textile dye studio devoted to foraging for colors in forests, fields and urban environments. The intention, rather than depict a particular landscape, was to allow the forest to determine the color palate and aesthetics of the work. This project was undertaken during residencies at The Shandaken Project / Storm King Sculpture…

Quilts

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A series of reconfigured bed quilts. From Gallery Diet press release for The Sleeping Cowboy and Mary/Steven Christy Gast will show a pair of textile pieces entitled The Sleeping Cowboy and Mary/Steven. Both are made of reconfigured handmade bed quilts, and reference portraits included in her recent book of photography Source, released by [NAME] Publications. Coaxing…