Sometimes the paths are straight and monotonous. But most of the time, they are winding trails, full of ups and downs, and we do not know clearly where we will stop. Here is the delight: we can stop to observe the beauty of the flowers and learn from each person we cross as we walk through them. My path…
I wake up early. The blue of the sky above the rush city shines promising a beautiful day. I’m already anxious to get out: today is botanical contact printing day. The first task, if we might call it a task because for me it is pleasure, is to pick up the material that will be our matrix for the…
“I have received color without limit from the natural world in the years since I entered the dyer’s way. It has poured down on me endlessly, too much for this meager vessel to hold. Joyful as a child with a new set of paints, I have woven and woven yarn dyed by the grasses and trees”. (Fukumi Shimura) I…
It was very difficult to define what would be the first experience that should open this series “Colors of Japan”. There are so many images, feelings, learning, and inspirations brought by my memories of the trip to Japan! This trip was the result of the prize that I received for the textile work “Each Step” in 2016. The whole…