creating some bookmarks for my Das Ist Textil thesis

Making a prototype of a keenepenek I am making for my analog sound suit.

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.8

I had the opportunity to meet and work with these amazing women who work with traditional handi-crafts for fair trade, made with sustainable local materials and natural dye. The National Association of Women’s Organizations in Uganda are women who have been battered, infected with HIV/AIDS, and create these extrodinary baskets to empower themselves and to provide income for their families. You can find more about their products on their website, NAWOU

The bottom photo is a collaboration of a solar powered water distiller in the form of a traditional Nubian basket. The materials used was rafia, tube lining and sisal.

Okay, maybe it’s too early to say it’s old but definitely not played out. I’m using this pattern with a few adjustments to create my turban for my final costume, can’t wait to post when it’s done.

Just making some silly hand weave gansta signs with my crew, wearing the chromatic woven material I made today. WEFT Side!

“It’s really important for me to define a practice around idea and method, rather than Specialism. Specialism, in the sense of an intimacy with and experience of process, is valuable but in another sense it can be inhibiting, hierarchical and ultimately set an obstacle to natural correspondence between like minds.

It’s funny when your ideas come to a realization. I was trying to create a playful and textural pattern with knit that turned-out looking like dinosaur scales. Check on the post below where I tried to create 3D structures with clay.