i traveled to vancouver and maiwa for tim mclaughlin’s ink making class. i had, as they say, a great time. linda marshall of washi arts hosted me and came along (rather, drove me every day through border crossings and traffic!) for the class, so we worked happily side by side. she’s a treasure.
learning how to set things up is really helpful. linda’s inventiveness = a long handled spoon: she taped two short spoons together!
erlenmeyer flask working for us
working weld
the meister’s inks
linda builds a library
lovely little bugs
3 days of weld pigment separation/extraction, day 1
and indigo
linda’s library grows: how these inks behave on a variety of washi
nibs, old and new
samples and more smaples
inspiration from tim’s journals
so much inspiration/instruction
the things we need, the things we make
these three images are by genevieve robertson’s show ‘looking through a hole in the earth’
her “stuff” looks familiar
of note to sarah, day three and final filtering
it took a while for it all to drain through the filter
plus indigo
sachi and her shifu shirt, kozo, cotton, madder and cutch (if i’m remembering the dyestuffs right)
sabrina sachiko neibler (sachi) works at maiwa, is a fiber artist and shifu maker. she’s making exquisite work. the design, spinning, dyeing, weaving, all hers. a beautiful, functional, wearable beautiful piece.
sachi brought samples for us to see, as well as wearing her shifu shirt
what i made
i finished taking meds for the sinusitis while away, felt terrific, and even the long ride home didn’t bug me, i had so many things to ponder. linda is shipping my inks, so i returned to teaching happily anticipating slu’s winter break. during break we heard news that my partner’s new puppy is coming, and i got sick. resick? out walking the other day i felt like crawling home. i didn’t, but am once again taking meds. and supplements, covering many modalities.
i came home to heavy winter
cornice finally crashed yesterday after becoming even bigger (probably another foot long) than this photo shows.
back to this project, and i have some spinning to finish
someone’s umwelt
newly downed trees (all diseased, probably this somebody who left evidence had something to do with that) hauled home means that the woodshed will continue to be replenished.
invasives like me i suppose
the community of makers moves me deeply. seeing sachi’s shirt being worn, meeting tim, and the others in our class (rock stars all, said one student) seeing really good art, and having deep conversation and time with linda (and her husband and three large-hearted dogs) and planning for a new class on ways of manipulating washi…my heart is full. class this week will be about letter locking (what is that you ask? go look at the letter locking society…)